NAIROBI: At least 13 children died and dozens of others were injured in a stampede as they left their primary school in Kenya on Monday, local police said, with investigators still trying to ascertain the cause of the tragedy. In the aftermath of the stampede, the police cordoned off the school and took statements from the teaching staff. “We lost 13 children in this stampede and others are in hospital due to injuries,” Kakamega’s police chief David Kabena told reporters at the scene. The Kakamega Primary School did not immediately comment on the incident. In 2016, nine students were killed by a fire at a girls’ high school in the Kibera neighbourhood of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.

Source: New Strait Times February 03, 2020 20:26 UTC