19 dead in fire at Guyana schoolgirls’ dormitory


AT least 19 young people were killed in a schoolgirls’ dormitory blaze in Guyana, officials said yesterday, with anger growing in the tiny South American country over the tragedy.

It is not yet known how the fire started Sunday in a dormitory housing girls aged 11-12 and 16-17, a person who helped the emergency services said under condition of anonymity.


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