At the school, distraught parents poured into the school to check on safety of their students and a Government delegation led by Central Provincial Commissioner Japheth Rugut visited the institution.

Mr Rugut directed that the students in form one be sent home indefinitely as investigations into the root causes that led to the tragedy were investigated.

“I direct a team led by the Provincial Director of Education to interrogate discipline and management issues to avert future tragedies,” he said.

The PC, accompanied by members of the provincial security team among them Central police chief John M’Mbijjiwe, directed the school management to decide the fate of the students in form two and form three.

Those in form four, being candidates, will remain at the school to sit KCSE examinations set to begin on Thursday.

Students and some staff members who spoke to the Nation said there had been discontent mainly from the form twos and threes demanding a change of management, and provision of amenities such as a swimming pool and pavements, proposals the parents declined to endorse.

Those demands are said to have culminated in the tragedy, which left the dormitory badly damaged and student property destroyed.