At least 16 students were killed and 73 injured at a girls' boarding school in central Kenya early Thursday, police officials said.
The Kenyan Red Cross said the blaze broke out around 1:00 in the morning at the Utumishi Girls' Academy Senior School in the Gilgil area, but was only reported only more than two hours later.
"First responders, ambulance crew and our support personnel are currently on the ground," a spokesperson for the Red Cross told French news agency AFP.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Frantic parents gather outside school
