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"Why me, God?" Grief engulfs parents after losing children in Utumishi school fire tragedy

Kenya Red Cross volunteers and homicide detectives retrieve bodies of students after a deadly dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls High School in Gilgil, Nakuru County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

She had spent hours searching for her daughter, unsure whether she was among students admitted to the hospital or those who had perished in the dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil, Nakuru County, on Thursday.

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