A fire has ripped through a dormitory at a girls’ school in Kenya’s Rift valley, killing at least 16 students. The fire broke out just after midnight at Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru county, about 76 miles north-west of Nairobi, police said. The education minister, Julius Migos Ogamba, told reporters that 79 other students were injured, although 71 of them have already been discharged from hospital. Ogamba said: “Investigations are ongoing, but the ... cause of the fire is not yet identified.” Students at the school are between 15 and 18, and about 220 girls were sleeping in the dormitory when the fire started on the building’s second floor. Doors on that floor were initially locked and some girls died while jumping out of the windows, a first responder said. Multiple survivors told first responders that a student had lit a mattress with a match, the first responder told Reuters. They did not know what the student’s motive may have been.…