GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A 15-year-old lady who’s accused of getting began a fireplace at a college dormitory in Guyana final week was charged with 19 murders on Monday.
The hearth killed 18 principally Indigenous ladies and one five-year-old boy within the constructing within the central metropolis of Mahdia. The lady began the fireplace after her telephone was confiscated, police stated.
The lady is being held in Guyana’s juvenile detention middle and the fees in opposition to her had been formalized throughout a digital listening to in Magistrate’s Court.
In the early hours of May 22, college students awoke to screams and noticed hearth and smoke within the dormitory’s toilet space, police stated in an announcement.
Nearly 30 kids had been hospitalized whereas two ladies in essential situation had been flown to New York on Saturday to hunt additional medical consideration.
Authorities have recognized 13 victims through DNA testing, whose stays had been returned to their households for burial.
The dormitory’s hearth alarm system and college hearth drills are being investigated, Guyana’s Education Minister Priya Manickchand stated. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
