At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation's president calling it a "major disaster." "This is a major disaster.

The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. (Guyana’s public information department/AP pic) A 15-year-old girl who is ...

The fire started just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the high school in the mountainous central town of ... A fire that engulfed the dormitory of a girls’ boarding school in Guyana killed at least ...

Guyana’s government says it will pay $25,000 to parents of each of the 20 children burned to death in a fire at a state-run high school in May, as part of a settlement to avoid any further ...

GEORGETOWN: At least 20 people were killed yesterday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation’s president calling it a “major disaster ...

The fire broke out in a central Guyana mining town, ... The fire broke out in the female dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana. By. Rachel Hagan News Reporter. 10:08, 22 May 2023; ...

A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday.

The death toll had risen to 20 and several people were injured in the fire at the Mahdia Secondary School in central Guyana, the government statement said. Ali said he ordered that arrangements be ...