{"id":3493,"date":"2023-05-19T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:50:41","slug":"icymi-25-dead-including-23-children-at-muslim-charter-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: 25 DEAD Including 23 Children At Muslim Charter School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At least 23 schoolchildren and 2 teachers have died in a fire at an Islamic religious school near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, a fire department official said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire started early Thursday on the top floor of a three-story building that may have been used as a dormitory for the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a fire department statement, two wardens and 23 students died in the fire. Seven other people were injured and taken to a hospital, with another 11 people rescued,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-malaysia-fire\/fire-kills-at-least-25-at-religious-school-in-malaysian-capital-idUSKCN1BP04T?il=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official said the dead bodies were piled on top of each other, suggesting there might have been a stampede as the students tried to escape. Police were still working to confirm the exact number of dead people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire broke out at around 5.40 a.m. in a top-floor dormitory in the three-story building, firemen said, where most of the students were sleeping in bunk beds, with many of the windows covered by metal grills. One survivor said there was just one window the boys managed to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youngest child that died was just seven, media said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt really does not make sense for so many to die in the fire,\u201d fire department official Khirudin Drahman told&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/malaysia-school-fire-25-people-mostly-students-killed-in-kuala-lumpur\/story-fdvNXUAmzd8ViruVTwgT4I.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agence France-Presse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it is one of the country\u2019s worst fire disasters in the past 20 years,\u201d he added, noting that the government was \u201cnow investigating the cause of the fire,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/09\/13\/malaysia-school-fire-kills-at-least-23-students.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A deadly fire at a religious school in Malaysia has killed 25 people. Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNewsAsia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCNewsAsia<\/a> for more updates: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1hVKsTpeB\">https:\/\/t.co\/K1hVKsTpeB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D2eJrzgAxz\">pic.twitter.com\/D2eJrzgAxz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/908151966286610432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster has renewed calls for greater scrutiny of so-called \u201ctahfiz\u201d schools, where students learn to memorize the Quran. They are unregulated by the education ministry, being the responsibility of the religious department,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-malaysia-fire\/fire-kills-at-least-25-at-religious-school-in-malaysian-capital-idUSKCN1BP04T?il=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dormitory had only one entrance, leaving many of the victims trapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe building was surrounded by metal grills that could not be opened from the inside. The students, after realizing the fire and heavy smoke, tried to escape through the window. But because of the grills, they could not escape,\u201d one official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire department reportedly raised concerns about fire safety in the past at unregulated and private religious schools, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/fire-at-islamic-school-kills-25#mbxZxb1mF2EFtMq7.97\" target=\"_blank\">Malay Mail Online<\/a>\u00a0reported. More than 200 fires were recorded since 2015 in such schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article:<a href=\"https:\/\/americasfreedomfighters.com\/icymi-25-dead-including-23-children-at-muslim-charter-school\/\">https:\/\/americasfreedomfighters.com\/icymi-25-dead-including-23-children-at-muslim-charter-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 23 schoolchildren and 2 teachers have died in a fire at an Islamic religious school near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, a fire department official said. The fire started early Thursday on the top floor of a three-story building that may have been used as a dormitory for the students. According to a fire department statement, two wardens and 23 students died in the fire. Seven other people were injured and taken to a hospital, with another 11 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}