Fire Safety

Malaysia teens charged with murder over school fire

Two Malaysian teenagers were charged with murder Thursday in connection with a fire that killed 23 children and teachers at an Islamic school this month.The pair, who cannot be named because they are aged under 18, were also charged with drug abuse along with four other suspects.Police arrested seven suspects, all aged 12 to 18, after the blaze – the country's worst for two decades – that gutted the school on September 14 in the capital Kuala Lumpur.The seventh suspect was released for l

28 September 2017
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Deadliest fire in Malaysia over two decades

Twenty-three people, mostly children, were killed Thursday by a blaze that tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapping them in a dormitory with metal grilles barring its windows.Pupils and teachers inside the Islamic study centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur screamed for help as neighbours looked on helplessly.Many of the bodies of the victims – who included 21 boys mostly in their teens – were found piled on top of one another, indicating there may have been a stampede as the students so

15 September 2017
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