NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenyan prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge a number of students with the murder of 16 schoolmates in the burning of a dormitory in late May that shocked the East African country.

Sixteen pupils, aged between 15 and 18, died and 132 were injured in a fire that broke out shortly after midnight on 28 May in a dormitory at the Utumishi Girls’ School in Gilgil, about 100 kilometres north (62 miles) of Nairobi.

Nine pupils from the school, which mainly caters for the children of police officers, are still in police custody. Most of them were arrested the day after the tragedy on charges of arson.