What Post-Mortem on 21 Victims Of Hillside Endarasha Tragedy Reveals
What Post-Mortem on 21 Victims Of Hillside Endarasha Tragedy Reveals: According to Pathologist Oduor, Pupils who perished in the Hillside Endarasha Academy fire tragedy had severe burns with several missing some body parts.
“They had different degree of burns and some of them were burnt to the bones…to a level that they had the lower parts of the limbs missing,” Dr Oduor said.
He went on: “However, we were able to obtain samples from inner parts of the bodies for DNA analysis to establish their identity and match them with their parents.”
He was speaking at the Naromoru Hospital Mortuary on Thursday where Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki also addressed journalists on the progress of the investigations.
On his part, Prof Kindiki stated the government had deployed relevant agencies and assured that the probe would be conclusive.
“I have seen some issues on numbers on social media…I want to say that this is a national security matter…we have made it very clear that we have nothing to hide. We shall give the information daily in a very coordinated way,” Prof Kindiki said.
The Interior Cabinet Secretary said that currently the government has not recorded any lost children from the tragedy.
“We had a total of 823 pupils enrolled in the school, out of these, 330 were boarders. On the fateful night, we had 164 boys and 166 girls in the two dormitories,” he said.
According to the Interior CS, out of the 164 boys sleeping in the dorm that night, 143 of them are alive and 140 of them are already with parents while three are currently hospitalised in different hospitals within the county.
“Any other person trying to play whatever game on the statistics is a heartless criminal, because this is a time that we are facing such an issue as a country. We should come together to support the families.”