Teenager charged with 19 murders in Guyana school dormitory fire
Georgetown, Guyana Reuters A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after […]
At least 19 die in school dormitory fire in Guyana; police say it may have been arson
Updated: 10:45am (AEST) Georgetown, Guyana Reuters An overnight fire in a school dormitory in Guyana that killed at least 19 children may have been arson, the country’s police and fire services said on Monday. The building in the central city of Mahdia was “completely engulfed in flames” by the time firefighters arrived around midnight, the […]