Kenyan court charges eight schoolgirls with their fellow students' murder

Nairobi. A Kenyan court has charged eight schoolgirls with murder in connection with the deaths of 16 students who died in a dormitory fire at a school in the country’s Rift Valley region in late May, authorities said.

The girls died after a fire broke out at Utumishi Girls’ Academy Senior School in Gilgil, Nakuru County, injuring 79 other students. Pupils at the school are aged between 15 and 18 years.

The eight accused appeared before the Kibera High Court in Nairobi, where they all pleaded not guilty, according to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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