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By Monicah Mwangi and Jefferson Kahinju, Reuters
A Kenyan police officer walks past forensic experts standing near the entrance of a building at Utumishi Girls Academy where a deadly fire took place in Gilgil, north of the capital Nairobi on 28 May 2026.
A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' secondary school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing at least 16 students, the government said on Thursday (local time).
The fire 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.
