A fire broke out on the premises of a high school in Nitra at night, and over two hundred students were evacuated from the dormitory.

Several children inhaled combustion fumes.

More than 230 people were evacuated overnight on Friday by Slovak firefighters and police officers from a secondary boarding school in Nitra because of a roof fire on its outbuilding. The flames also damaged the boarding house itself. The fire department and the local government informed about this, more serious injuries to people were not reported by the authorities.

The Nitra Self-Governing Region has already prepared a preliminary estimate of the visible damage caused by the night-time fire at the Slančíkova Unified School dormitory in Nitra. Depending on the region, the amount reached 800 thousand to one million euros. As it informed, the fire damaged the roof of the dormitory extension and the building's insulation. Several windows and some rooms are also destroyed. "The reconstruction of the electrical …

About 250 students were evacuated, two ended up in hospital.

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The accident started around 7 a.m. on one of the three elevators in the building,