35 Jamhuri High Students Stabbed in Overnight Fight

35 students are reported to have sustained injuries on Tuesday night after an overnight fight broke out in Jamhuri High School at Ngara, Nairobi, where students allegedly disagreed over religion.

Preliminary reports indicated that students turned against each other with some suffering stab wounds as a section protested discrimination based on religion.

The injured students were rushed to hospital as investigators sought to establish how they accessed machetes and knives that were used in the violent incident.

The school's Principal, Mr Fred Awuor, was also injured during a brawl with the violent students.

[caption caption="A student being carried to an ambulance at the Jamhuri High School"][/caption]

Students subscribing to the Islamic and Christian faith are said to have clashed as each faction pushed for mass conversion of the students.

Reports claim that Muslim students launched the attack against their Christian counterparts in a bid to have them convert to Islam or leave the school.

Nairobi Police Commander Japheth Koome led a delegation of high-level security officers to the institution to conduct investigations on Wednesday morning.

Confirming the incident, the police boss conveyed that his officers had managed to restore calm to the institution as they sought to establish the facts.

A consultative meeting between the school's management and security officials resolved to close the school on Wednesday and have the 1,500 students return on January 29.

Parents were angered by the developments at the school even as the school's management downplayed the situation saying that the students had merely had a disagreement.

Netizens quickly latched onto the developing story as they shared views on what had transpired at the school.

Here are some of the comments that were shared.

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