TRAGEDY: Over 100 UoN Students From Kikuyu Campus Injured In Assumed Al-Shabaab Attack!
Over 100 students from the University of Nairobi were Sunday morning injured following a stampede after a power transformer exploded.
The 4am incident which happened at the university’s Kikuyu campus caused confusion and panic as many students mistook the explosion for a terrorist attack.
This forced students to scamper for safety with many jumping from as high as the sixth floor of their hostels…ultimately ending up with ghastly injuries.
Many sustained serious injuries and were immediately rushed to hospital.
About 100 were admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital while others were taken to St Teresa and Karen hospitals.
Initial reports indicated that several of them were critically injured.
The stampede was caused by fears among students that the loud noise from the explosion of the transformer could have been an attack by Al-Shabaab terrorists.
This comes two weeks after 148 people died at the Garissa University College following an attack by the Somalia-based terrorist group.
Students are still receiving frantic medical care. We wish them the quickest recovery.
SAD.
