Dormitory Set blaze By Teenage Student Over Seized Cell Phone

Officials claim that a teenage girl who was furious about having her cell phone taken away set a dormitory on fire in Guyana that killed 19 youngsters.

Late on Sunday, a fire started at the Mahdia Secondary School in the South American nation. The Guyana Fire & Rescue Service claimed in a statement that the fire was “maliciously set.”

The suspect in the incident, a student at the school, was accused of lighting the dorm on fire after being punished for having a contact with an older guy, National Security Adviser Gerald Gouveia told the Associated Press.

“A female student is suspected of having set the devastating fire because her cellular phone was taken away by the dorm mother and a teacher,” Mark Ramotar, Guyana Police’s communications chief, said in a statement seen by the local news outlet Stabroek News.
The AP reported that the dormitory had been locked to stop the girls from sneaking out at night.

Gouveia told the AP that the house mother had been asleep inside the building and panicked when she could not find the keys to unlock the doors. She made it out but “lost her five-year-old child in the fire,” he said.

When firefighters arrived, the wood-and-concrete building that housed the 57 children was “engulfed in flames,” the fire service said.

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The building’s windows were heavily barred and five doors were locked, it added.

The AP reported that the dormitory had been locked to stop the girls from sneaking out at night.

Gouveia told the AP that the house mother had been asleep inside the building and panicked when she could not find the keys to unlock the doors. She made it out but “lost her five-year-old child in the fire,” he said.

When firefighters arrived, the wood-and-concrete building that housed the 57 children was “engulfed in flames,” the fire service said.

The building’s windows were heavily barred and five doors were locked, it added.

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