The office of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has stated that he has ordered an investigation into the stampede in a school in the west of the country that has killed at least 14 students and injured 39 others.
According to local official, Dickson Rayori, the circumstances of the accident were not yet clear. Meanwhile, Kenyan media reported that officials suspected that the students, who were between 10 and 11 years old, were scrambling for the three-storey ladder in the town of Kakamega, at the end of the school day yesterday.
Local media indicated that the peace had collapsed due to the stampede of the students, and the President’s office, through his Twitter account, expressed his condolences to the families of the children, and indicated that an investigation will be conducted to find out the cause of the tragedy.
Eight students were killed and 57 others were injured last September as a result of the collapse of a primary school class in the capital, Nairobi.
The Kenyan "Daily Nation" newspaper quoted Pires Kimani, police chief in the western region, as saying that 20 of the injured had received treatment and had been discharged from hospitals.