NAIROBI: A dormitory fire in Kenya’s central region of Nakuru killed at least 10 students, media said on Thursday, citing a senior police official. Emergency rescue teams were searching the dormitory at Utumishi Girls Academy, where the fire started at about 1 a.m. (2200 GMT), radio station Capital FM said, citing Samuel Ndanyi, the regional police commander. “It is a distressing and saddening situation,” county police official Masoud Mwinyi told distraught parents outside the school, said another broadcaster, Citizen Television.

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

Local authorities said the fire broke out in a dormitory where 220 girls had been sleeping.

By SHARON NAKOLA in Nairobi, Kenya |

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