The fire claimed the lives of 18 indigenous girls aged 12 to 18, who were from remote villages served by the boarding school
A 15-year-old girl has been charged - as an adult - with murdering 19 people after she allegedly set fire to a secondary school dormitory in Guyana."deliberately" started the blaze in the southwestern border town of Mahdia.Most of the victims died after becoming trapped in the burning building, despite fire crews managing to rescue others by smashing through one of the walls.
National security adviser Gerald Gouveia described how the fire spread through the building, which had been locked by the housemother to prevent the girls from sneaking out and socialising with men from the village. Mr Gouveia said:"The housemother was asleep at the time inside the building but panicked and could not find the right keys to unlock the building from inside but she made it out.
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