Police launch probe after fire razed down Kibera school
Police have launched investigations into the cause of fire at Lindi Friends Primary School in Kibera on Sunday, July 24, 2022. The fire destroyed at least 14 classrooms. “The fire consumed the entire school’s 14 classrooms. The cause of the fire is yet to be established,” a police report stated. The school has almost 3000 […]
Nairobi: Property of unknown value destroyed in two separate cases of fire
Property of unknown value was on Monday, July 11, 2022, destroyed by fire in two different cases of fire in Nairobi. In the first incident, a fire believed to have been caused by a stove explosion burnt four aluminium houses in Soweto, Nazarene Kibera. The fire was contained by members of the public and no […]
West Pokot: Fire guts down shops in Makutano town
Traders in Makutano town in West Pokot County are counting losses after a fire razed down their shops on Sunday morning. The trader’s cried foul as they were unable to salvage anything as they watched the inferno consuming all their products with no fire engine vehicle from the county government reaching the site to put […]
Migori: Family cheats death as fire razes their house at midnight
A family in Sagero village, Migori County cheated death after their two-bedroom house was razed down by fire at midnight while they were asleep. According to the owner of the house, Otieno Okumu, he woke up at night and found a huge smoke billowing in his house before he raised an alarm waking up his […]
Kiambu: Sorrow as woman, her 3-year-old daughter burn beyond recognition in house fire
Residents of Gatuikira village in Ndenderu, Kiambaa sub-county woke up to a sad morning following the death of two family members through a deadly inferno. The fire whose cause is yet to be established also burned two other family members with one of them nursing severe burn injuries in a nearby health facility. The midnight […]
Mahi Mahiu-Nairobi road closed after trailer ferrying gas burst into flames, several vehicles catch fire
Mahi Mahiu-Nairobi road has been closed after a trailer that was ferrying gas burst into flames at Mutarakwa. Several vehicles caught fire with no casualties reported as everyone involved in the accident was evacuated. According to a witness identified as David Kamau, the trailer burst into flames when a breakdown had come to lift it […]
Five family members perish in night fire
A fire incident in Mashuuru area, Kajiado county, has claimed lives of five family members. Three children, their mother, and a domestic worker were among the fatalities of the fire. The bodies have since been taken to Kilome Nursing Home mortuary in Emali. The house owner, Saitoti Ole Maina, was not in at the moment […]