Guyana, cellphone confiscated as punishment: 14 year old girl sets dorm on fire, killing 19 students

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A confiscated mobile phone is the trigger of the fire on Sunday evening Guyana, in the city of Mahdia. In fact, one of the young dormitory students started the fire, causing the death of nineteen students and the wounding of nine othersSome of these are pretty serious. According to local authorities, behind the girl’s gesture was the Cell Phone Seizure with which she had been punished after discovering the affair between the girl and an older man. According to some witnesses, after the guardian confiscated the phone, the young woman began screaming: threatened to set fire to the building. The 14-year-old then backed her words with action by going into a bathroom, where she sprayed insecticide on a curtain, which she then lit with a match.

The arsonist is not one of the victims At that moment, the guardian had closed the dorm doors to prevent the girls from going out at night. In the confusion caused by the flames, the woman (who lost the daughter of
5 years) could not have found the keys, so the same rescuers had to create openings in the wall to help the trapped people. The suspected arsonist is in hospital with burns but her life is not in danger. According to Leslie Ramsammy, an adviser to the Department of Health, the young woman should be taken to a clinic after her release
juvenile detention centerwhere he will remain until he comes of age. The young woman’s partner, who could be accused of rape, is also at risk because the girl is not yet sixteen years old.