{"id":27340,"date":"2016-08-01T01:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-seven-pupils-treated-for-shock-after-st\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T01:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:40:32","slug":"kenya-seven-pupils-treated-for-shock-after-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-seven-pupils-treated-for-shock-after-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Seven pupils treated for shock after St Augustine Primary School fire in Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The police attributed the fi\u200ere to an electrical fault and ruled out arson as investigations continue.}<\/p>\n<p>At least seven pupils were treated for shock and minor injuries after a dormitory at St Augustine Primary School in Mombasa caught fire on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s dormitory accommodated 135 pupils caught fire at about 11.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The police attributed the fi\u200ere to an electrical fault and ruled out arson as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Mombasa Deputy OCPD Njoroge Ngigi said they received a fire emergency call from St Augustine Primary school at around 11.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was fire on the second floor of the girls\u2019 dormitory.<\/p>\n<p>Swift response by the Mombasa County and Kenya Ports Authority fire brigades managed to contain the fire which had consumed a better part of the dorm.&#8221; Mr Ngigi said.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven pupils who suffered shock were rushed to the Coast Provincial General Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir rushed to the scene and helped calm the boys and girls who slept at the schools boardroom and staffroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Red Cross Society members were also at hand and provided temporary shelter for the pupils at school.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13883 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fire-8.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters at St Augustine Primary School in Mombasa, which caught fire on Sunday night.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The police attributed the fi\u200ere to an electrical fault and ruled out arson as investigations continue.} At least seven pupils were treated for shock and minor injuries after a dormitory at St Augustine Primary School in Mombasa caught fire on Sunday night. The girl&#8217;s dormitory accommodated 135 pupils caught fire at about 11.30 pm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27340"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27340"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}