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Twenty Children Die in Niger Republic School Fire

Rescuers hold a body after a fire at a Koranic school that killed at least 26 children and two teachers in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 18, 2019. - Emergency services told President George Weah that 28 people died on September 18, 2019 overnight, his spokesman Solo Kelgbeh told AFP, as the president visited the site in Paynesville, on the outskirts of the capital. (Photo by Zoom DOSSO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images)

No less than 20 children have died after their classrooms caught in fire in Niger’s capital Niamey.
The cause of the fire in the school, located in the Pays Bas area of the city, has not yet been established.
The Reuters news agency reports that the fire started around the entrance of the school, which has a population of 800 students..
The blaze, which spread to 21 classrooms built with straw, trapped the children inside as the they did not have an alternative escape route.
“Without an emergency exit, many were trapped and students were forced to scale the wall to escape. Those that died were mostly children in the preschool,” Reuters quoted a teachers’ union official, Mounkaila Halidou, as saying.
Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou has visited the school to offer his condolences to the children’s parents.

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