Eight students who were injured during the gun attack at a school in Turkana do not want to return to the institution.
Six students and a watchman were by suspected Toposa bandits from South Sudan.
Eighteen others were injured in the attack said to have arisen from a conflict between two students at Lokichogio AIC Mixed Secondary School.
Form one student Abraham Lochor, who is from South Sudan, has been accused of going to the school with three assailants.
He had been expelled
from the school for indiscipline cases.
The injured form one students who underwent operations at Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret said they were traumatised by the incident.
Hospital CEO Wilson Aruasa said the students suffered fractures and bullet wounds on the leg, chest and back and it will take time for them to heal and be discharged.
"They are however out of danger, stable and are recovering well after their operations," the doctor said.
He said the victims are also undergoing psychological counselling at the hospital.
"We want to ensure the students are well-treated and have adjusted to accept what happened to them even as they recover in readinedd to go back home and possible school," Aruasa added.
"It was a very brutal attack. They just came to kill us over issues we didn't know [about] and it's just be God's luck that we survived though we [have] serious injuries," Sandra Awoi told journalists from her hospital bed.
She described Lochor as an indisciplined student who always disrespected teachers and bragged about his military training in South Sudan.
"I remember in one incident he tried to beat up a female teacher and was
suspended from school. He was rude to us and teaches and always bragged
that he was a former soldier who could do anything," she added.
School principal Samuel Ewoi said he had sent Lochor home for reporting to school with a mobile phone, but he always returned with it.
Dismas Emure who had a bullet wound in his right leg said police intervention was late, yet the local station is a few kilometres from the school.
The school has been closed following the shooting and security has been increased in 30 other schools in the region ahead of KCPE and KCSE examinations later this month.