To say this was a bit of an overreaction is an understatement… A 15-year-old girl from Mahdia, Guyana has been arrested and charged with the murders of 18 schoolgirls and a 5-year-old boy after she allegedly set fire to her school’s dormitory earlier this month. Related: Boyfriend Arrested After Missing Woman’s Body Found Burned & Scattered According to the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service, the Mahdia Secondary School was engulfed in flames just before midnight on May 21.
At the time there were 56 students in total present in the dormitory. All of the windows in the wooden building were barred, and five entrances were locked, trapping many of the victims.
This wasn’t the teen’s doing. According to AP, Guyana National Security Advisor Gerald Gouveia explained the doors and windows were blocked like this to prevent any of the students from sneaking out at night.
Unfortunately it also kept them from escaping during the inferno. Among the victims, 13 additional female students were transferred to local hospitals with injuries, with one being brought all the way to New York City over the weekend to Staten Island University Hospital due to the severity of her burns, per Guyana’s Department of Public Information: On the day of the fire, Guyanese President Dr.
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