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Endarasha Tragedy: Parents to wait for one month to receive bodies

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Kenya Red Cross personnel assist the parents. who were overwhelmed after viewing the scene at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024 after a fire broke out killing 17 children. [Kibata Kihuu, Standard]

Parents of children who perished in a night inferno at Hillside Endarasha Academy last week will wait for one month before collecting the bodies of their children.

This comes even as the Central Regional Commissioner Pius Murugu announced that all the pupils who were victims of the fire have been accounted for.

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