It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which was the latest in a series of deadly fires at schools in the country in recent years. An early morning fire at the dormitory of a girls' boarding school in Kenya killed several students on Thursday, the police and rescue services said. The fire was reported around 3:30 a.m. at the school, Utumishi Girls Academy, which teaches high school students in the town of Gilgil, the Kenya Red Cross said on social media.

The story centers on Kenya, Gilgil, Boarding school, and Nairobi. It has drawn coverage across roughly 442 reports so far.