8 girls arrested in Kenya after deadly school dormitory blaze
Kenyan police have arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school.
The blaze on Thursday killed 16 children and injured dozens of others.
The motive remained under investigation.
Police said that the girls were arrested for planning and carrying out a suspected arson attack at Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya.
Police spent the whole day Thursday questioning 30 students at the school and asked their parents to head home without the girls and come back on Friday morning.
Parents remained in limbo at the school with no clear information on when the rest of the students would be released.
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