26 children die as fire breaks out in Liberia boarding school
Stephanie Busari, CNN Updated 1334 GMT (2134 HKT) September 18, 2019
(CNN)Twenty-six children have died after a fire broke out in a boarding school in a suburb outside the Liberian capital Monrovia, a government spokesman told CNN.
The children were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque at the Quranic Islamic School in Paynesville City when it caught fire at around 11 pm Liberia time, Presidential Press Secretary Isaac Solo Kelgbeh said.
The children, some as young as 10, were not able to escape the building because there was no fire exit and there were security steel bars on the windows, Kelgbeh told CNN.
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Bus crashes, building collapses, gas explosions, I'm sorry for all of these kinds of incidences and they are fairly common in the world. I'm not sure what to say as to posting these tragedies here but this is getting fairly wide-coverage.
Ouch, that last line says a lot, the children were blocked from being able to flee. Isn't that almost always the case in these kinds of incidences.
