The Kenyan school that was the scene of a stampede in which 14 pupils were killed will be closed for a week while police investigate what went wrong.
Kakamega Primary School was on Tuesday closed for a week, a day after 14 pupils died in a stampede.
During the closure, pupils and parents of Kakamega Primary School will be counseled at both the school and Kakamega Referral Hospital.
“We’re going to open counseling centres both at the school and the Kakamega Referral Hospital to counsel pupils and parents,” Ng’etich said.
Thirteen pupils were confirmed dead on arrival at the referral hospital. The other died of injuries at Nala Nursing Home where he was being treated.
Two critically injured pupils are in the ICU at the referral hospital and two others in general wards. Thirty-seven were treated and discharged.
“We have not made any headway with the investigations due to interruptions by dignitaries. We have not recorded any statement,” Western regional deputy DCI boss Jimmy Kisibo said yesterday.
The tragedy comes just two days after 20 people were killed in a stampede at an open-air evangelical Christian church service over the border in Tanzania.
In 2016, nine students were killed by a fire at a girls’ high school in the Kibera neighborhood of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
