{"id":180287,"date":"2024-09-10T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T07:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dna-of-hillside-academy-fire-victims-begins-as-all-missing-pupils-accounted-for\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T07:26:28","slug":"kenya-dna-of-hillside-academy-fire-victims-begins-as-all-missing-pupils-accounted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dna-of-hillside-academy-fire-victims-begins-as-all-missing-pupils-accounted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: DNA of Hillside Academy Fire Victims Begins As All Missing Pupils Accounted for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nyeri \u2014 The scientific identification of the bodies of 19 pupils from Hillside Academy, who tragically perished in a fire, began Monday at Narumoro Level 5 Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Central Regional Commissioner Pius Murugu announced that all 164 pupils who were in the affected dormitory have now been accounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">During a press briefing, Murugu, alongside Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga, confirmed that parents of the deceased pupils had smoothly provided DNA samples to aid in the identification process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409100024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyeri \u2014 The scientific identification of the bodies of 19 pupils from Hillside Academy, who tragically perished in a fire, began Monday at Narumoro Level 5 Hospital. Central Regional Commissioner Pius Murugu announced that all 164 pupils who were in the affected dormitory have now been accounted for. During a press briefing, Murugu, alongside Nyeri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651744:f04ed735fa407c60187f22ec7430a29f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8197,43665,258,256,8082,13947,6600,24068,4688,430,6947,257,17917,254,8402],"class_list":["post-180287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-academy","tag-accounted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-dna","tag-fire","tag-hillside","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-pupils","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651744:f04ed735fa407c60187f22ec7430a29f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}