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State starts initiative to curb fires in schools

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Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo. [File, Standard]

The government has begun an assessment of boarding schools to curb cases of fires that jeopardise learning in the institutions.

Parents have incurred huge losses in school fires since the third term began. One of the incidents was the fire which claimed the lives of 21 lives while several others were injured at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County.

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