INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A fire at a primary boarding school in central Kenya has killed 17 students, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.President William Ruto said
he had asked authorities to investigate and hold those responsible to account.More rescuers were on their way to the Hillside Endarasha
instruct relevant authorities to thoroughly investigate this horrific incident
said on X.There have been a series of school fires in Kenya in recent years, many of them which have turned out to be arson.Nine students
were killed in Sept 2017 in a fire at a school in the capital, Nairobi, that the government attributed to arson.In 2001, 58 schoolboys were
killed in a dormitory fire at Kyanguli Secondary School outside Nairobi
In 2012, eight students were killed at a school in Homa Bay County in western Kenya.Source: Reuters--Agencies
