2023-05-23 23:45:49
24.05.2023
The student sprayed insecticide on a shower curtain and struck a match, protesting a dorm supervisor taking her phone away.
A teenager is suspected of causing the fire where 19 young people died and 17 others were injured in a school residence in the mining town of Mahdia, southwest Guyana, following their cell phone was seized, the police said this Tuesday (05.23.2023)
“Police investigations so far into Sunday night’s deadly fire in Mahdia, which claimed the lives of 19 people, reveal that it is suspected that a student caused the devastating fire because the dormitory supervisor and a teacher took his cell phone,” the police report indicates.
The informant said that witnesses pointed out that the schoolgirl had threatened on Saturday night to burn the facilities in protest of the seizure of her cell phone by the manager of the school residence.
“They are not allowed to have any cell phones and they found this girl with a phone and apparently she was sending photos, so they took the phone from the girl who threatened that same night to burn down the building and everyone listened to her,” the official said. .
He pointed out that minutes following the cell phone was taken from him, he went to the bathroom area and sprayed insecticide on a curtain while striking a match.
Despite the efforts of other students to extinguish the fire, the fire quickly ripped through the wooden roof and eventually destroyed the entire building, the official added.
The firefighters arrived 25 minutes following starting the fire in the facilities where 57 students were staying, 14 of whom were burned. Five others died at the Mahdia district hospital, where they were transferred.
Versions indicate that the young woman escaped from the building following several men broke down a door, when they realized that the students were trapped inside the concrete structure with metal bars.
gs (afp, Archyde.com, ap)
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