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. A fire ripped through the dormitory of a boarding school in central Kenya, killing 17 boys as they slept and injuring 14 others, police said Friday. A government spokesperson said the boys were in Grades 4 to 8, and that the dormitory housed 156 students. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Kenya has a history of school fires, many of which have turned out to be the result of arson. Nine students were killed in September 2017, during a fire at a school in Nairobi. In 200, 58 schoolboys were killed in a dormitory fire at a school outside Nairobi and in 2012, eight students were killed at a school in western Kenya.