Six students sustained serious injuries and are admitted at the Meru Level Five Hospital during a security drill at the Kenya Methodist University yesterday, the Star reports, while sSeven others escaped with minor injuries in the incident.
During the drill, a member of the security personnel, armed with a gun and dressed like an al Shabaab militant entered the university where he fired shots, shouting that he was member of the terror group.
Kenya Red Cross coordinator Gitonga Mugambi confirmed the incident saying that the drill was executed unprofessionally. He said two students are still unaccounted for following the incident. Mugambi said it is believed that the students may have run into the neighbouring imenti forest in the ensuing panic.
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“I am an expert in preparing security drills and this was done in an unprofessional manner. During such drills people must be prepared psychologically and they should have been trained. You cannot just come and start scaring people without preparing them,” he said.
He added that disaster management teams including the police must be involved and at standby to respond adequately. “There was not even a drill commander who should have been present and immediately after the drill move round with a loud speaker announcing to all to maintain calm and help them overcome their shock,” he said.
The Red Cross Official said if it was properly done, the students who ran into the forest would have found officers to calm them down.
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Six students sustained serious injuries and are admitted at the Meru Level Five Hospital following a security drill at the Kenya Methodist University on Wednesday.
Seven other students escaped with minor injuries in the incident.
During the drill, a member of the security personnel, armed with a gun and dressed like an al Shabaab militant entered the university where he fired shots, shouting that he was member of the terror group.
Kenya Red Cross coordinator Gitonga Mugambi confirmed the incident saying that the drill was executed unprofessionally.
He said two students are still unaccounted for following the incident. Mugambi said it is believed that the students may have run into the neighbouring imenti forest in the ensuing panic.
“I am an expert in preparing security drills and this was done in an unprofessional manner. During such drills people must be prepared psychologically and they should have been trained. You cannot just come and start scaring people without preparing them”, he said.
He added that disaster management teams including the police must be involved and at standby to respond adequately.
“There was not even a drill commander who should have been present and immediately after the drill move round with a loud speaker announcing to all to maintain calm and help them overcome their shock ”, he said.
The Red Cross Official said if it was properly done, the students who ran into the forest would have found officers to calm them down.
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