Students’ plan to burn Form Four dormitory in Karima High School, Nyeri thwarted

Form two students suspected to have been planning to burn a dormitory at Karima Boys High School in Nyeri on 14 June 2015 are escorted to Othaya Law Courts to face charges of intending to commit arson. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD]

NYERI: More than 120 KCSE candidates at a school in Nyeri could have perished on Saturday night had the administration and police not thwarted a plan by three students to burn the school.

The Form Two students at Karima Boys High School were arrested moments after purchasing three liters of petrol with the intention of razing down a dormitory named Kibaki and occupied by Form Fours.