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Five students from Magereza Academy were charged with arson and malicious damage after a dormitory fire that forced the school's closure. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]
Five students from Magereza Academy in Naivasha have been arraigned before a Naivasha court and charged with arson and malicious damage to school property worth Sh5 million.
The five minors are accused of planning and executing a scheme to torch a section of a dormitory on the night of May 5, forcing the closure of the school, which has more than 800 learners.
The development comes barely a week after a court allowed police to detain for 21 days nine students from Utumishi Girls High School who are accused of an arson attack that left 16 of their schoolmates dead.
