At least 20 people were killed and several more were injured in a fire that started around midnight Sunday in a student dormitory at a secondary school in ... statement from Guyana's Department ...

Investigators have said the fire was deliberately set by ... extinguishers and sprinkler systems. School dormitories are widely used in Guyana’s rural interior to serve children from distant ...

Fire Chief Gregory Wickham told Stabroek News that the Guyana Fire Service (GFS ... and around the same time her granddaughter came home from school and said she was smelling gas.