At least 17 pupils have charred to death after a school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, BBC reported.
More than 150 pupils were in the dormitory that caught fire at around 3pm local time, the local media reported.
The death toll is likely to go up as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns.
The fire spread very fast as most of the buildings in the school are built with timber, according to a journalist from Citizen TV.
The cause of the fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri County is not yet known.
The school has a total of 824 pupils, mostly aged between five and 12.
President William Ruto calls the fire "horrific" and "devastating", and has ordered a thorough investigation into the incident.
