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Teenager charged with 19 murders in Guyana school dormitory fire

People stand inside the remains of a burnt secondary school dormitory after several children, most of them from Indigenous communities, died after a fire gutted the building overnight, in Mahdia, Guyana in this handout image obtained by Reuters on 22nd May, 2023.

Georgetown, Guyana Reuters 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 fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after […]