A fire incident was reported in Ziwani Slums near Kariokor in Nairobi, to add on to the recent spate of infernos in the city.
According to eyewitnesses, the night blaze started at a rehabilitation school for teens from the slums and a children's rescue centre.
Nairobi county emergency services and the Kenya Red Cross were deployed to the put out the fire.
Here is the video of the inferno:
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At the time of publishing of the article, no casualties had been reported.
Earlier in August, two separate fire incidences were confirmed by the Kenya Red Cross.
One of the fires that destroyed some property of unknown value took place in Kibera around the Olympic Primary School.
A second fire also took place in the outskirts of Nairobi in Ruaka estate, Kiambu County, where a number of commercial shops were razed down.
Red Cross relayed that no people were seriously injured in both incidents and firefighters managed to contain the fires.
A series of fires in business districts in Nairobi have come to be seen as a ploy used by private developers attempting to grab land to put up commercial buildings.
[caption caption="Bystanders watch as fire razes down shops in Ruaka estate on 30/07/2018"]
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"This is a crude tactic used here to evict us, believe it or not in the next few weeks, we will be out of this place and shiny stalls will be erected and leased to new traders and life will go on.
"When the owners of the stalls will want to raise the rent they will engineer another fire, and the circle will go on," explained Michael Gitonga, a trader at Gikomba Market.
[caption caption="Fire razes down residential areas during the Lang'ata fire"]
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