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Six students of Riyabe Mixed Secondary School in Keroka Town, Nyamira County were hospitalised on Thursday, March 11 after sustaining injuries occasioned by a stampede that occurred after a tremor hit parts of Nyamira in the wee hours of the morning.
Five of the students are from the Form One class, whereas the sixth one is a Form Two learner, Nyamira County Commissioner Amos Mariba told K24 Digital.
The learners were in class for prep minutes to 5am on Thursday, when the tremor occurred.
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Some students panicked and began fleeing the classrooms, causing a stampede, which ended in six learners sustaining injuries of varying degrees.
County Commissioner Mariba says the injured students were in classrooms on the first floor of a storeyed building.
The stampede victims were taken to Keroka Sub-County Hospital.
“One of the students, who is 17 years old and is in Form Two, broke his legs after jumping through the window. He has since been transferred to St. Clare’s Kaplong Mission Hospital for advanced treatment” said Mariba.
The other five Form One students were treated and discharged.
A shallow magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported early morning near Musoma in North Mara, Tanzania.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Thursday March 11, 2021 at 4:47 am local time at a shallow depth of 10 km.
Shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones as they are closer to the surface, reports Volcano Discovery.
A second report was later issued by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which listed it as a magnitude 4.7 earthquake as well.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake was probably felt by many people in the area of the epicenter.
“It should not have caused significant damage, other than objects falling from shelves, broken windows, etc,” said Volcano Discovery.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Sirari; located 36 km from the epicenter, Butiama; 45 km away, Musoma; 53 km away, and Bunda; 76 km away.
Parts of Nyanza counties in Kenya, particularly Migori, Kisii and Keroka regions, experienced the tremors.
-Additional reporting by Brian Okoth-
