NAIROBI — At least 17 children have been burned to death and another 13 are badly injured after a fire at a school dormitory in the Kenyan county of Nyeri, police said on Friday, as parents swarmed the burned-out remains of the building searching for their children.

       County police commander Benjamin Rotich told The Post that 152 boys were in the dormitory at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, but the final death toll was unclear since some parents had arrived to rescue their children and in the chaos it was unclear how many were left in the building. The primary school has pupils up to 14 years of age.