At least 16 students died in an overnight fire that started in the dormitories of a girls' boarding school, a Kenya government official said, in the latest such incident to rock the East African natio...

At least 16 students have died in a fire that tore through a girls’ boarding school in central Kenya early on Thursday morning.

Authorities are trying to account for all the students at Utumishi Girls School in the Gilgil area.