Kenyan police arrest eight students on suspicion of arson after school fire

Students gather after a fire at Utumishi Girls School in Gilgil (Andrew Kasuku/AP)

Kenyan police have arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others.

The girls were arrested for planning and carrying out a suspected arson attack at Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, or DCI, a department of the national police.