Prosecutors in Kenya on Wednesday charged eight schoolgirls with murdering 16 of their classmates by setting a fire at the Utumishi Girls Academy on May 28. The victims, perpetrators, and most of the 79 people injured by the fire were between 15 and 18 years old.
The Utumishi academy is an all-girls boarding school in the town of Gilgil, some 69 miles north of the capital of Nairobi. The fire started on an upper floor at just after midnight and burned for over two hours. Eyewitnesses said many of the students were trapped by debris and unable to escape the blaze.
CNN noted at the time that school fires are all too common in Kenya and are…
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