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Niger school blaze: Trapped children die in Niamey

BBC News Published image captionThe remains of desks are all that is left from the straw-hut classrooms At least 20 children have died after they became trapped in a fire at a school in Niger s capital, Niamey. It started late on Tuesday afternoon when the children were in lessons, many in straw-hut classrooms. The flames blocked the school gate, so most pupils had to escape over a wall, said a teacher s union official quoted by Reuters. Most of those who did not manage to escape were attending the school s nursery, officials say. The government-run junior and pre-school in the Pays Bas district of the city had a mixture of brick and straw-hut classrooms, BBC Hausa s Tchima Illa Issoufou reports from Niamey.

20 pupils die in school fire after being trapped in Niger Republic » NEWS

20 pupils die in school fire after being trapped in Niger Republic » NEWS
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How 20 children died in Niger Republic school fire incident

How 20 children died in Niger Republic school fire incident On Kindly Share This Story: A school in Niger Republic with a population of 800 has been thrown into mourning after a fire outbreak killed 20 children. Twenty School children have died after their classrooms caught fire in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The school located in the Pays Bas area has a population of 800 students. According to Reuters, the cause of the fire which started around the entrance of the school is yet to be established. Twenty-one classrooms built with straw were gutted by the fire, effectively trapping some students who did not have an alternative escape route.

20 Niger pre-school children die in school fire

April 15, 2021 Written by VOA FILE - People walk in a courtyard in Niamey, Niger, Feb. 16, 2016. A fire at a school in the Pays Bas neighborhood on April 13, 2021, left at least 20 children dead At least 20 nursery-school children died in Niger on Tuesday in a fire that trapped them in straw-hut classrooms in a school in a poor neighbourhood of the West African nation s capital, government officials said.  There were 20 deaths, most of them young children, said the head of Niger s fire service, Colonel Bako Boubacar. He said the origin of the fire in Niamey was unknown.  An official of a Niger s teachers union said the school in the popular Pays Bas neighbourhood had around 800 students, including children in the nursery section. 

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