15 000 homeless after fire in Kenyan Slum

15 000 Kenyans are now homeless

After a major fire in a slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, more than 15,000 people are homeless. As the newspaper Daily Nation reported on Tuesday, two children died in the flames. The fire was probably caused by an exploding gas cylinder was thrown.

In the narrow shanty town, the flames spread with great speed. The unloading, however, were slow because the helpers had little access to sources of fire and fled, the residents of the slums in a panic. According to the authorities, more than 5,000 of the destruction of wood, mud and corrugated iron huts.

Through the fire, one of the main power lines were destroyed. Also on Tuesday morning several neighborhoods of Nairobi were still without electricity. Repair of the damaged high-voltage power line was not immediately possible because the damaged area was not accessible. (APA)

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