At least 20 Niger preschool children die in school blaze Reuters 3 hrs ago
NIAMEY, April 13 (Reuters) - 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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