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Thailand school dormitory fire kills at least 18 schoolgirls in Chiang Rai | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Eighteen girls aged between five and 12 have been killed in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in northern Thailand. | Eighteen girls aged between five and 12 have been killed in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in northern Thailand. |
A police source said five other girls were injured, two seriously, in the blaze in the Chiang Rai province. | A police source said five other girls were injured, two seriously, in the blaze in the Chiang Rai province. |
He said two of the bodies were so badly burned they were unidentifiable. | He said two of the bodies were so badly burned they were unidentifiable. |
Some girls survived without injuries, but it was not known how many. | Some girls survived without injuries, but it was not known how many. |
Firefighters took three hours to extinguish the blaze and pulled survivors and bodies from the second-floor window of the wooden building. | Firefighters took three hours to extinguish the blaze and pulled survivors and bodies from the second-floor window of the wooden building. |
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. | The cause of the fire was not immediately known. |
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