Fire began shortly after midnight at school serving mostly Indigenous young people aged 12-18, say officials
At least 20 pupils have been killed in a fire in a school dormitory in Guyana, authorities have said.
The Guyanese government said in a press statement that the fire broke out in the dormitory building of a secondary school in the south-western border town of Mahdia, 200 miles (320km) south of the capital, Georgetown.
“We have lost many beautiful souls in that fire,” the government said.
