{"id":104852,"date":"2024-12-10T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/dci-launches-probe-on-jkuat-hostel-fire-7-students-hospitalised\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:03:04","slug":"dci-launches-probe-on-jkuat-hostel-fire-7-students-hospitalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/dci-launches-probe-on-jkuat-hostel-fire-7-students-hospitalised\/","title":{"rendered":"DCI launches probe on JKUAT hostel fire, 7 students hospitalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 10<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched an investigation into a fire incident at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Juja early Tuesday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which broke out around 3 am on Tuesday, left seven students injured.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary reports indicate that the fire spread rapidly through the Kifaru male hostels, engulfing several rooms within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Njuguna, a resident of the hostel, told <em>Capital FM<\/em> that the building\u2019s doors were locked when the fire started, making it difficult for students to escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard shouts for help and saw thick smoke and flames emerging from the windows,\u201d Njuguna recounted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire spread so fast, and it was terrifying to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulating on social media show thick smoke and a large fireball rising from the hostel\u2019s windows, sparking panic among students and other residents of the university.<\/p>\n<p>The institution\u2019s clinical department confirmed that seven students were injured in the incident, with five admitted to JKUAT Hospital and two others receiving treatment at Thika Level 5 Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of the fire remains unclear with detectives working to determine its origin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 10 \u2013 The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched an investigation into a fire incident at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Juja early Tuesday morning. The blaze, which broke out around 3 am on Tuesday, left seven students injured. Preliminary reports indicate that the fire spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}