{"id":326545,"date":"2023-05-29T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/29\/girl-15-charged-with-19-murders-in-guyana-school-dormitory-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:10:00","slug":"girl-15-charged-with-19-murders-in-guyana-school-dormitory-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/29\/girl-15-charged-with-19-murders-in-guyana-school-dormitory-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 15, Charged With 19 Murders In Guyana School Dormitory Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The girl is being held in Guyana’s juvenile detention center. (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday.<\/p>\n

The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after her phone was confiscated, police said.<\/p>\n

The girl is being held in Guyana’s juvenile detention center and the charges against her were formalized during a virtual hearing in Magistrate’s Court.<\/p>\n

In the early hours of May 22, students awoke to screams and saw fire and smoke in the dormitory’s bathroom area, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Nearly 30 children were hospitalized while two girls in critical condition were flown to New York on Saturday to seek further medical attention.<\/p>\n

Authorities have identified 13 victims via DNA testing, whose remains were returned to their families for burial.<\/p>\n

The dormitory’s fire alarm system and school fire drills are being investigated, Guyana’s Education Minister Priya Manickchand said.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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