Several Kenyatta University students and staff have been injured after a security scare caused commotion at the institution. Over 40 students and staff at the university suffered arm and leg fractures while escaping from the university’s library where a fight between students was mistaken for a terror attack.
Sources within the institution said the commotion started after a fight in the library between two students. The screaming that followed scared many students studying for CATs (Continuous Assessment Tests) due next week. Some of the students were reported to have jumped from the third floor of the new Library.
KU ambulances were at hand to rescue the injured students following Friday afternoon melee. There are also other reports to the effect that it was caused by the collapse of a faulty elevator in the library, sending the library occupants into panic.
“My friend and I were in the library studying for the upcoming exams when we suddenly heard a commotion and started seeing people jumping off from third and fourth floor,” one student is quoted by Nairobi News as saying.
The incident comes just days after another terror scare at Moi University’s Main Campus where 20 students were injured after jumping off their hostel room windows following an explosion triggered by an electrical fault.
Some of the seriously injured students the Kenyatta University were transferred to the Kenyatta National Hospital for further check-up.
Efforts to get access into the university were, however, futile after security guards denied the media entry.
According to the university’s website, the institution’s library, a five-storey building, has six floors and a sitting capacity of over 6,000.
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