DR Congo School Fire Stampede Death Toll Rises to 26: UNICEF
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DR Congo school fire stampede death toll rises to 26: UNICEF
The blaze in the city of Bukavu on Thursday began around 9:00 am (0700 GMT) while the children were in lessons, forcing some to try to escape by jumping from higher floors, a teacher told AFP. "In the middle of class, I suddenly heard students screaming, some were jumping from the upper floors, and others were running away through the doors," Simon Kasamira, a teacher at Ujamaa primary school, told AFP at a clinic where he had been admitted. "Pa…
A fire of unknown origin broke out in the vicinity of a school in Bukavu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing a movement... Read more The panic after a fire cost the lives of 26 children in Bukavu appeared first on Le Singulier.
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A fire and stampede at a school in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed “at least 26 children,” UNICEF said in a statement released on Friday. On Thursday morning, at around 09:00 (local time; 10:00 Greek time), a fire broke out of unknown cause near a school in […]
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