NAIROBI - Fourteen children were killed in a stampede as they rushed down a staircase at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya on Monday, officials said.
At least 39 more pupils were badly hurt in the incident at the Kakamega Primary School, the Daily Nation newspaper said, citing Western Region Police Commander Peris Kimani. "We lost 14 of them," Education Minister George Magoha told Citizen TV."One life is a life too many.""As kids were going home from school there was a stampede as they were going down the stairs," said Peter Abwao, a spokesman for Red Cross Kenya."It's a three-storey building, it's a classroom block."
Anxious parents waited outside the Kakamega hospital for news of their children, Daily Nation pictures showed.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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