wrap pix of president touring of school fire, incl comment, replay earlier aftermath pix

(26 Mar 2001)
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1. Exterior of Min Kyanguli Secondary School
2. Crowd gathered outside the school
3. Various of interior of dorm with bodies
4. Police and staff outside building
5. Journalists leaving the building
6. Door is closed
8. Red Cross workers at the scene
9. Red Cross workers preparing tags for bodies
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10. Red Cross workers in dorm labelling bodies
11. Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi arrives at Min Kyanguli School
12. Moi visits dorm
13. Moi leaves dorm with officials
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Daniel Arap Moi "As I said a ghastly accident that has never been seen in this part and because government is going to investigate indepth the cause which made these children lose their lives."
15. Women gathered at the scene
16. Red Cross workers at the scene wearing masks
17. Red Cross workers remove bodies from School
exterior school
18. Crowds around dormitory
19. Soldiers entering dormitory
20. Soldiers lifting corpses in bodybags
21. Soldiers coming out of dormitory carrying bodybags
22. Bodybags into rear of truck
23. Close up body bags in truck
24. More body bags out of dormitory and onto vehicle
STORYLINE:
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58 boys have been killed and 28 seriously injured after a fire ripped through the main dormitory of a boarding school in southeastern Kenya.
Police suspect arson was the cause of a fire that swept through the crowded secondary school and have sent in a forensics team to investigate.
The fire which broke out at 1:40 a.m.(0340gmt) at Min Kyanguli Secondary School in Machakos, 30 miles southeast of the capital Nairobi.
Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi toured School later on Monday and promised a full investigation.
139 male students between the ages of 15 and 19 were said to be sleeping in the main dormitory,
Local police sources said that the fire brigade had not been summoned, and police using
the school's garden hoses as well as the heavy rain eventually put out the fire.
This is the second such incident to hit a Kenyan boarding school.
In March 1998, more than 20 girls burned to death in a secondary school fire near the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
They had been locked inside the school by the management.
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