SONNA – At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation’s president calling it a “major disaster.”
“This is a major disaster. It is horrible, it is painful,” the South American nation’s President Irfaan Ali said Sunday night.
The death toll had risen to 20 and several people were injured in the fire at the Mahdia Secondary School in central Guyana, the government statement said.