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| Emotional parents of students who perished at Kyanguli Secondary School on the night of March 26th 2001 at the Milimani High Court during the hearing of the case in which 63 students perished in a ?re tragedy that engulfed the domitory in which they were sleeping.PHOTO.FIDELIS KABUNYI |
NAIROBI, KENYA: Emotions ran high at a Milimani court when teachers and parents of the 63 students who perished in a dormitory fire 13 years ago heard witness accounts of the fateful night.
Abbas Esmail, a lawyer for the parents, had to console Jackson Kioko Muindi - a teacher at Kyanguli Secondary School - when he broke down several times as he testified. The session had to be interrupted amid parents' sobs.
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