(PHOTOS) Buruburu Girls students leave for home after fire

The administration of Buruburu Girls Secondary school allowed students to leave the facility on Monday after a fire broke out on Sunday night.

According to a form four student, the fire was started on each floor of the Kingdom dormitory which is a three-storey building.

Principal Caroline Maina said that the fire was in one cube out of the 45  and the fire was contained.

She further stated that she had a meeting with form one and two students and later on had late lunch before she was alerted about the incident.

"I had a baraza with form one and form two from morning until around 2:30 pm where I had even invited counsellors to talk to the students. I had late lunch around 3-4 with the counsellors and walked them to the gate," she said.

Some of the students who were inside, jumped from the dormitory when the fire started.

Parents who are residing near the school arrived at the school during the incident demanding to take their children home but the school locked them out.

The school's administration warned any girl found to be involved in the fire incident will face the law as investigation begins.

Nineteen girls are still admitted at the Metropolitan Hospital while 16 others are at the Jamaa Hospital.