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Fire at Malaysia School Kills 25 Including Students, Wardens

Malaysia (September 14, 2017): At least twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a blaze tore through a Malaysian religious school, in what officials said was one of the country’s worst fire disasters for years.

The blaze broke out before dawn in the two-storey building, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in the centre of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Firefighters rushed to the scene and the blaze was out within an hour but not before it wreaked terrible devastation — pictures in local media showed ash-covered, fire-blackened beds.

Loga Bala Mohan, the government’s federal territories deputy minister, said: “We sympathise with the families. It is one of the worst fires involving so many lives in the capital in recent years.

A fire department official at the scene said that the blaze broke out in bedrooms before dawn, and firefighters from a nearby station were on the scene within minutes.

In October last year, six people died in a fire that swept through the intensive care unit of a major hospital in the southern state of Johor.

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