Les fortes pluies font 55 morts et 53 000 sinistrés
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Pluies au Niger: 55 morts et plus de 53 000 sinistrés depuis juin - Environnement
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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.