Gilgil. A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing 16 students, the government said on Thursday.

The fire, whose cause ​has not been established, broke out just after midnight at the Utumishi ​Girls' Academy Senior School in Gilgil in west-central Kenya and burned ⁠for more than two hours, Education Minister Julius Migos told reporters.

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