School fire kills over 27 young people in Liberia

At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia.
The early-morning fire is believed to have broken out when Koranic school students were sleeping in a building near their mosque.

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(Image: Rescuers hold a body after a fire at a Koranic school that killed at least 26 children and two teachers in Monrovia, Liberia. Credit: ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images)