Students jump out of top-floor windows when security exercise causes mass panic at Strathmore UniversityA Kenyan university is facing severe criticism after a woman was killed and up to 30 people injured when a safety drill was mistaken for a genuine terrorist attack,causing terrified students to flee and jump out of upper-floor windows. Strathmore University confirmed in a statement on Monday that a staff member, Esther Kidemba, and had died as a result of “severe head injuries” during the exercise. She is reported to fill thrown herself out of a third-storey window.
Strathmore Uni students teetering on the edge approximately to assume a leap. it was all a drill. pic.twitter.com/O5bcmPEaHKIn airplanes they note you where the emergency exists are,how to use a life jacket.
They don't simulate a crash. Strathmore did the reverse.
The #StrathmoreDrill was like those medieval medicines that were more dangerous than the diseases they were trying to cure. Tragic.
Catching up with the #StrathmoreDrill. KE citizens trauma inflicted by terrorism is worse than we care to admit. People are living in fear.
Security #DrillFail as worker dies at Strathmore University #WordedTuesday #TuskysNgongMilele #WorldAIDSDay pic.twitter.com/MXtLregJ7QContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com