A fire at a school for girls in central Kenya has caused an unknown number of deaths, according to police, who said search teams have been deployed.

At least 16 students were killed and scores injured after fire tore through a boarding school in Kenya's Rift Valley region in the middle of the night.

Utumishi Girls Academy founder Edward Mbugua has called for a national dialogue on the future of boarding schools following the dormitory fire that claimed the lives of 16 students at the institution.

A fire has devastated a girls' boarding school in central Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring many more.

Eight students were arrested for the alleged arson of a dormitory at a Kenyan girls' boarding school that killed 16 students ...

At least 16 students died in an overnight fire that started in the dormitories of a girls’ boarding school in Kenya, a government official said, in the latest such incident to rock the East African ...

Kenyan authorities have arrested eight students on ‌suspicion of arson over a fire at a girls’ boarding school that killed 16 ...

Another 79 students were injured in the blaze, which was the latest in a series of deadly fires at schools in the country in recent years.

A government official in Kenya says 16 students died in an overnight fire that started in the dormitory of a girls’ boarding school ...