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At least 25 people, including students and teachers, have been killed in a fire that erupted at a religious school in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.At least 25 people, including students and teachers, have been killed in a fire that erupted at a religious school in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
“Based on our information at the moment, 25 students and teachers have died in the fire,” the City Fire and Rescue Department told The Star. "The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens," Khirudin Drahman, director of Kuala Lumpur's Fire and Rescue Department told AFP. "They could have died due to smoke inhalation or got trapped in the fire."
“Our personnel are still at the scene,” officials said, adding that the bodies have been moved to a nearby hospital. The fire broke out early Thursday morning at around 5:40am local time (9:40pm GMT), Reuters reports. The blaze, which erupted in the dormitory section of the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah boarding school, also left seven people injured. They have been taken to a hospital.
The blaze broke out early Thursday morning at around 5:40am local time (9:40pm GMT), Reuters reports. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. At least 11 others were saved from the burning building after firefighters from a nearby station rushed to the scene within minutes. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
"I think it is one of the country's worst fire disaster in the past 20 years. We are now investigating the cause of the fire," Drahman said.