Fire kills nine children at Senegalese Koranic school
DAKAR (Reuters) – Nine children were burnt to death in a fire that broke out while they were sleeping in a crowded room at a Koranic school in the Senegalese capital Dakar, witnesses said on Monday. The fire occurred late on Sunday while some 40 children were asleep in a single room inside the ramshackle building with wooden walls and zinc roofing in the residential district of Medina, local residents said. “When the fire started, a fire brigade truck came but could not get access to the site because of the narrow road leading to the house,” restaurant worker Saliou Gano, 45, told Reuters. . . .
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