In protest against the confiscation of her phone…a girl sets fire to a female student dormitory, leaving 19 dead
In protest against the confiscation of her phone…a girl sets fire to a female student dormitory, leaving 19 dead
In protest against the confiscation of her phone…a girl sets fire to a female student dormitory, leaving 19 dead
Eighteen schoolgirls and a boy were killed in a fire that broke out in a dormitory at a girls’ school in the South American Republic of Guayana, where a girl set fire to the dormitory in protest at the confiscation of her mobile phone.
The local authorities stated that the fire broke out last Sunday, and caused the death of the schoolgirls, along with the son of the dormitory director.
A government official explained that the schoolgirl caused the fire; She was injured in the fire and admitted her responsibility for it, after she had threatened to set the building on fire and everyone heard her.
And he stated that the perpetrator is currently being treated in the hospital, under the supervision of the police, pointing out that after confiscating her phone, she went to the bathroom at night, sprayed an insecticide on a curtain and set it on fire with a match, while this account was confirmed by many female students who survived.
The police said in a statement that the students said that they were asleep and were awakened by screams, after they saw fire and smoke in the bathroom, which quickly spread throughout the building, which was made of wood.
She added that the dormitory manager panicked and failed to find the key to the gate of the building, whose windows were also equipped with bars.
For its part, the authorities in Guyana declared a three-day national mourning as an expression of grief over the loss of the victims of this disaster.
