UPDATE: Police have arrested three students after a fire razed two dormitories at St. Joseph Seminary School in Molo, Nakuru, leading to the institution’s indefinite closure. A fire broke out at St. Joseph’s Seminary Senior School in Molo, Nakuru County, with videos and images from the scene showing flames and thick smoke billowing from part
A Form Four student, Cecilia Wanjiku, died on May 28, 2026, after helping other students to escape a dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil, Nakuru County. Eyewitness accounts narrated a panicked dormitory as fire and smoke engulfed the rooms and Wanjiku refused to abandon her colleagues, running back into the blazing inferno and
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested eight students in connection with the fire tragedy at Utumishi Girls Senior Secondary School in Gilgil, Nakuru County, which claimed the lives of 16 students. In a statement issued on Friday, May 29, 2026, the DCI said preliminary investigations had identified the eight girls as persons of