Some 20 children died Tuesday after several classrooms caught fire at a school in Niger’s capital Niamey, the fire service said.
“Twenty-one classrooms in straw huts caught fire. Around 20 children were trapped in the blaze,” fire service commander Sidi Mohamed said on public television. “Rescuers set off rapidly and the fire was put out… but the power of the fire was enormous,” he added. “The children were not able to escape.”Public television, citing witnesses, said the fire had broken out at around 4.00 pm , “when the victims were in class”.Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou travelled to the scene of the tragedy, on the edge of the capital, to offer his condolences to the children’s parents.
Fires in these buildings are fairly common due to the flammable materials used, but such accidents have rarely proved fatal.
Bad news all the time.
Was there petrol or gas in the school? How can the fire of locker and table burning massively. Or is there something we don't know here 20 children ?
May the soul of does that has passed away in this tragic Event be in peace
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