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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. ....
At least 20 children dead in Niger nursery school fire By Chad Williams Share CAPE TOWN – At least twenty children have died after a fire gutted a school in Niger’s capital of Niamey on Tuesday afternoon. According to a report by news broadcaster BBC, the children were attending lessons in straw-hut classrooms when the fire broke out. Halidou Mounkaila, the secretary-general of the National Trade Union of Contractual Agents and Civil Servants in Basic Education said: Twenty-five out of 38 classrooms in the school were devastated by the fire, as reported by Anadolu Agency. Straw-hut classrooms are often built as overflow areas for lessons in schools when there are not enough brick ones, according to a BBC reporter. ....