One student was hacked to death, several others still missing, while more than 40 were treated in hospital
and discharged after a gang attacked a school in Dagoreti in Nairobi.
The attackers gained access to St
Charles Mutego Education Centre, a private mixed secondary and primary school,
at midnight using a broken wooden fence and went directly to the dormitories
where they ordered all students to come out.
The deceased, a Form One student,
was admitted to the school last week and was
set to start learning this week. The student was killed outside the school
compound while fleeing to a nearby forest. The body was taken to City Mortuary.
“The attackers who were armed with
crude weapons stood at the main door of the dorm and order the door to be
opened before they directed us to get out. They used timbers and pangas to hit
us one by one,” said one student.The students said the attackers who
had covered their faces were merciless as they hit the students indiscriminately
and even stepped on some girls who had collapsed. The students added that after
attackers ensured that most students were out of the dormitories they continued
to drive them out of the school as other fled to nearby Ngong forest.
“I was hit on the back with a panga
before I took off and I thank God that am alive though with some pains,” said a
student, who explained that the attackers used planks of wood used for
construction and repair at the school as weapons with which to hit them.
Mr Simon Ndiami, was one of the
parents who had no idea on the whereabouts of his son, Isaac Lesile.
“I have checked with the school and have not seen my son so I am going to
the police station to report the matter before I continue with the search
together with my friends,” he said.
The director of the school, Charles
Nyamute, said that he left the school at 11pm to go home only to receive a
phone call later that students had been attacked. “I do not know the motive of this
attack on these innocent students,” said Mr Nyamute.
The school principal Bonface Makori
alleged that a number of students at the school had aided the attackers in
accessing the dormitories. “We have information that some
students joined the attackers and even facilitated their exit from the school,”
said Mr Makori.
He criticised parents who he claimed
were not willing to divulge more information about their children while seeking
admission at the school. “As parents let us learn to be
truthful and tell the school management so that we know the true characters of
the children we admit in this school,” he said.
The centre, which is situated a few
kilometers from Lenana School, is now set to a hold parents’ meeting on
Wednesday to decide on the next course of action.
Most of the parents said that their
children arrived at home in the wee hours of the morning while others used
friends’ phones to call home.
The school management said that
several parents had reported their children as missing and the school was
working with the police to track them.
Several arrows and bows that had
been used by the attackers were discovered in the compound.
The number of attackers could not be
ascertained as police said they were more than 50 while students said they were
about 30.
Sahara Tribune
One
student was hacked to death and several others are still missing while
more than 40 were treated in hospital and discharged after a gang
attacked a school in Dagoreti in Nairobi.
The attackers gained access to St Charles Mutego Education Centre, a
private mixed secondary and primary school, at midnight using a broken
wooden fence and went directly to the dormitories where they ordered all
students to come out.
The deceased, a Form One student, was admitted to the school last
week together with the rest of the form and was set to start learning
this week. The student was killed outside the school compound while
fleeing to a nearby forest. The body was taken to City Mortuary.
“The attackers who were armed with crude weapons stood at the main
door of the dorm and order the door to be opened before they directed us
to get out. They used timbers and pangas to hit us one by one,” said
one student.
The students said the attackers who had covered their faces were
merciless as they hit the students indiscriminately and even stepped on
some girls who had collapsed.
The students added that after attackers ensured that most students
were out of the dormitories they continued to drive them out of the
school as other fled to nearby Ngong forest.
“I was hit on the back with a panga before I took off and I thank God
that am alive though with some pains,” said a student, who explained
that the attackers used planks of wood used for construction and repair
at the school as weapons with which to hit them.
Mr Simon Ndiami, was one of the parents who had no idea on the whereabouts of his son, Isaac Lesile.
“I have checked with the school and have not seen my son so I am going to the police station to report the
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