{"id":35665,"date":"2026-05-28T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35665"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:01:14","slug":"kenya-school-fire-kills-at-least-10-students","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-school-fire-kills-at-least-10-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya school fire kills at least 10 students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A dormitory fire \u200bin Kenya&#8217;s central region of \u200cNakuru killed at least 10 students, media said on Thursday, citing a \u200bSenior police official.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Emergency rescue teams \u200bwere searching the dormitory at \u2060Utumishi Girls Academy, where the \u200bfire started, radio station <i>Capital FM<\/i> said, citing Samuel Ndanyi, the Regional Police Commander.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It \u200bis a distressing and saddening \u200bsituation,&#8221; county police official Masoud Mwinyi told \u200cdistraught \u2060parents outside the school, said another broadcaster, <i>Citizen Television<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Firefighters and police officers had fanned out to \u200bcontrol the \u200bblaze \u2060and evacuate other students<i>, <\/i><i>Capital FM<\/i>\u00a0added. The \u200bcause of the fire is \u200bnot \u2060yet known.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2024, a fire killed 21 students at a \u2060primary \u200bboarding school in nearby \u200bNyeri county.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20579,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35665","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Dormitory fire \u200bin Kenya's central region of \u200cNakuru killed 10 students","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35666,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35665\/revisions\/35666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}