CCTV footage allegedly showing students starting a dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls Senior Secondary School has led to six arrests and a nationwide debate after the blaze killed 16 students.

Eight students have been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack at a Kenyan girls' school that killed 16 children. Investigations are ongoing

The fire, at the Utumishi Girls' Academy Senior School in Gilgil in west-central Kenya, broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning and also injured 79 students.