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The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times
30 May 2023


NextImg:Teenager Charged With 19 Murders in Guyana School Dormitory Fire

GEORGETOWN—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.

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.

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.

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.

Nearly 30 children were hospitalized while two girls in critical condition were flown to New York on Saturday to seek further medical attention.

Authorities have identified 13 victims via DNA testing, whose remains were returned to their families for burial.

The dormitory’s fire alarm system and school fire drills are being investigated, Guyana’s Education Minister Priya Manickchand said.

By Kiana Wilburg