Emotional sendoff for family killed in fire tragedy

A Kenyan man who authorities described as homeless has died following an explosion that razed down the building he was in in Forest Park, about twenty miles South of  the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.The man has been identified as Daniel Kariuki Chege akaKandithi.Clayton County authorities said the man “may have been asleep when several  explosions rocked the building.”“Daniel was well known around here. He usually spent the night inside the building to keep the wintery weather at bay,”...

The fire brigade yesterday explained their failure to combat the fire that gutted a house on Friday night at Kipunguni area in the city, killing six members of the same family.

JK sends condolences after house fire kills six family members in Dar
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President Jakaya Kikwete has sent a condolence message to Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick following the weekend tragic death of six family members. The shocking incident occurred late Saturday night when a fire broke out in ...

Infant killed in Tarime as arsonists set fire to house
Daily News
A TWO-week-old infant who perished in an inferno after arsonists set fire to the house in which it was sleeping in Kerende village was one of four people killed in separate incidents in Tarime District recently. Tarime Special Police Zone Commander, Mr Justus ...

Tanzanian army officer killed, five injured in fire exchange
Global Times
A soldier with the Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) was killed and four others and one police officer injured on Saturday in a 15-minute exchange of fire with hardcore criminals in the east African nation's coastal region of Tanga, police said Saturday.
TPDF officer killed, 2 others and 3 cops injured in shoot-outs with `terrorists`IPPmedia
Tanga shootout leaves uniformed officers injuredDaily News

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Three family members killed in arson incident
Daily News
THREE people of the same family in Ngando village, Misenyi district, have been killed by unknown people who set their house ablaze, Kagera Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Henry Mwaibambe, said. He named the deceased as Kahwa Rutukuka ...

Police in Dar es Salaam are holding city businessman Hussein Jeta for shooting to death a driver of one of his trucks allegedly for causing him $200 (about Sh 400, 000) loss that he paid as fine for overloading.

>When Gaudin Kakoko left his house for work, the officer at Stakishari Police Station was looking forward to travelling to his Karagwe home in Kagera Region the next day. Little did he know that he would not live long enough to see another day, let alone home.

>A family in Likoni has accused soldiers from Kenya Navy’s Mtongwe base of killing their 25-year-old son.