A huge fire broke out at Langata Barracks on Thursday night. 

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According to eyewitnesses, the inferno started from a nearby Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' mess on Thursday night just some minutes to around midnight. 

However, no deaths have since been recorded.

By the time of going to press, fire engines were still on site trying to put out the fire that was threatening to spread to adjacent buildings. 

The army barracks is situated in Langata constituency, an area that harbours Kibera slums that is synonymous with infernos, a fact that has since been attributed to the substandard establishments, illegal power connections among others. 

Langata Army Barracks is popularly known as home to the renowned Maroon Commandos. 

The Music band is a musical military group that belongs to 7th Kenya Rifles Battalion-Kenya Army Infantry that is stationed at the Langata Barracks. This popular group performs rumba, benga among other styles of music.

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