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14 pupils trampled to death in school stampede

Parents console each other after school tragedy that killed 14 children. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Fourteen pupils of Kakamega Primary School died yesterday following a stampede at their school.

The incident that took place on the third floor of the five-storeyed building left one pupil admitted at the Kakamega Referral Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), two in a critical condition with 39 others nursing injuries.

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