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A fire at a primary school dormitory which killed at least 17 children in central Kenya is an "injury to the republic", interior Minister Kithure Kindiki says in a statement during a visit to the scene where he also offered condolences to families of the victims. "The country has woken up this morning to very devastating news," he says. "This injury is not an injury to Nyeri county, it's an injury to the republic of Kenya." SOUNDBITE
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