Fire rips through boarding school dormitory in Kenya as boys sleep, killing 17

A fire ripped through the dormitory of a boarding school in central Kenya, killing 17 boys as they slept and injuring 14 others, police said Friday. A government spokesperson said the boys were in Grades 4 to 8, and that the dormitory housed 156 students. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Kenya has a history of school fires, many of which have turned out to be the result of arson. Nine students were killed in September 2017, during a fire at a school in Nairobi. In 200, 58 schoolboys were killed in a dormitory fire at a school outside Nairobi and in 2012, eight students were killed at a school in western Kenya. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #kenya #fire