No fewer than 26 school children aged between five and six burnt to death on Monday when their straw and wood classrooms caught fire in southern Niger, seven months after a similar tragedy in the capital Niamey. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them...
fire outbreak
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – No fewer than 3 students were injured and properties destroyed in a fire outbreak at the University of Maiduguri Murtala female hostel on Saturday, the second of such incident in one month. The fire, which was suspected to have started from a cooking stove,...