Questions abound over the cause of the accident that claimed seven lives and the events leading up to the two infernos that resulted in the closure of Dr Aggrey Boys High School in Taita Taveta.

At least four students have been confirmed among the seven people killed in the grisly accident, while 28 others are hospitalised in various hospitals across the Coast region.

Students of Dr Aggrey Boys, an extra-county school, were sent home after a dormitory made of iron sheets, housing 120 students, was reduced to ashes in the Thursday night inferno. "I pleaded with the students not to go home after the fire tragedies, but they resisted.

My hands were tied, and I had no choice but to let them go as tension mounted," the school principal, Robert Aran,said.