The 2349 students in the Dutch school, about fifty teachers and parents are in mourning. A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon and destroyed 25 hut classrooms, built in a very crowded shopping area without fences.
as reported from Niamey, Moussa Kaka
Tolls are very heavy. Twenty students, including 19 in kindergarten, died in the fire that ravaged the school in the Netherlands. Arriving at the scene, the firefighters have little more than to note the damage: the entire preschool and part of the primary school extension went up in smoke. At the site of the classes, only carcasses of tables, benches, metal, charred.
On Wednesday morning, the schoolyard is full of people. In addition to the teachers, the parents of the students, the municipal authorities, the education officials in the city of Niamey and, of course, the investigators of the judicial police are present.
Avoid a new drama
Sorrow and desolation can be read on their faces. Everyone wants to understand what really happened to these little children in the hut classroom in the middle of the shopping field and who could not have been saved from the flames.
This is the third time in two years that the school classes in this school in one of the poorest districts in Niamey are going up in smoke. Almost everyone who has visited the ashes in these classes is unanimous: responsibility must be located. To avoid the repetition of such drama.
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