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Form four student, security guard killed in attack on Kericho school

Police and members of the public move the body of slain Kaptebeswet secondary school student to a police vehicle for transfer to Kericho County Hospital mortuary- [PHOTO BY NIKKO TANUI]

Machete wielding assailants struck Kaptebeswet Secondary School in Ainamoi and killed a form four student and a watchman before escaping with at least six computers, public address systems, gas cylinders among other items.

When The Standard arrived at the school located along Kericho- Kisumu road, 3kms from Kericho town, the lifeless body of the male student Hillary Kipkurui Langat which had multiple machete wounds lay lifeless in an iron sheet house he was living in at the school compound.

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