Police open inquest into fire that killed 5 children in Laikipia

The scene of the fire that killed a woman and five children at Matanya village in Laikipia East. The cause of the fire was not immediately established. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

A woman and five children Wednesday died in a fire that gutted their home at Matanya village in Nanyuki Wednesday.

Residents watched helplessly as the fire consumed the two adjacent wooden houses, where the woman and her three children slept, before spreading to the next one where two of her neighbour’s children were.