Fire kills sleeping boys at Kenyan boarding school

Several dead after blaze engulfs dormitory housing more than 150 children aged 10 to 14

At least 18 boys have been killed and 27 more were taken to hospital after a fire raged through the dormitory of a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday.

Kenya's vice-president, Rigathi Gachagua, gave the toll at the scene at the Hillside Endarasha academy, a primary school in the town of Endarasha, where the fire broke out at about midnight engulfing rooms where more than 150 children were sleeping.