Glowing tributes for Moi Girls' fire victims

Moi Girls High School students hold potraits of their colleagues who died after their dormotory caught fire on September 2. Photo: Elvis Ogina, Standard

The grim faces were in sharp contrast with the Moi Girls High School mantra, 'Light and Life', as tearful parents and relatives offered emotional tributes to the nine girls who died in a dormitory fire two weeks ago.

Joyous laughter and girlish giggles were replaced by tired faces as both students and parents trooped into the school, whose playground was transformed into a prayer yard to mark an emotional farewell to the girls.