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A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls’ secondary school in a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley overnight, killing 16 students, the government said on Thursday.
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.
He said 79 other students were injured, although 71 of them had already been discharged from hospital. Students at the school are aged between 15 and 18 years.
“Investigations are…