A Kenyan court has ordered nine teenage girls to be held at a children's home for up to 21 days while investigators probe a fire that killed 16 students at Utumishi Girls School in Gilgil (a town roughly 90 kilometres west of Nairobi), with the case returning to court on 24 June. The blaze, which tore through a dormitory housing 202 students on 28 May, was allegedly started deliberately using a mattress, paraffin, and a matchstick, with escape hampered after a school matron failed to open an emergency exit. No motive has yet been established, and DNA testing is under way to identify victims whose remains were severely burned.