/ 28 March 2001

58 PUPILS BURNT TO DEATH IN KENYA

AT least 58 secondary school students were burnt to death when a fire broke out in the early hours of Monday at a dormitory in eastern Kenya’s Machakos district, police said. A police statement said 28 other students were seriously injured in the fire, which broke out at Kyangulu Mixed Secondary School at 1.40 a.m. The cause of the fire could not immediately be established, the statement added. Machakos district is about 64km southeast of the Kenyan capital on the main Nairobi-Mombasa highway. – AFP