NAIROBI - A Kenyan court charged eight schoolgirls on Wednesday with murder for the deaths of 16 of their fellow students in a dormitory fire at a school in Kenya’s Rift Valley in late May, the public prosecutor’s office said.
The girls died after fire swept through the dormitory at Utumishi Girls’ Academy Senior School in Gilgil, Nakuru County, located in Kenya’s west-central region, injuring another 79 students. Students at the school are aged from 15 to 18 years.
