{"id":118617,"date":"2021-04-14T15:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118617"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:16:21","slug":"20-children-killed-in-niger-school-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118617","title":{"rendered":"20 children killed in Niger school fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20-children-killed-in-Niger-school-fire.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20-children-killed-in-Niger-school-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NIAMEY, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Some 20 children died Tuesday after several classrooms caught fire at a school in Niger\u2019s capital Niamey, the fire service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwenty-one classrooms in straw huts caught fire. Around 20 children were trapped in the blaze,\u201d fire service commander Sidi Mohamed said on public television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRescuers set off rapidly and the fire was put out\u2026 but the power of the fire was enormous,\u201d he added. \u201cThe children were not able to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public television, citing witnesses, said the fire had broken out at around 4.00 pm (1500 GMT), \u201cwhen the victims were in class\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the fire was not yet known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou travelled to the scene of the tragedy, on the edge of the capital, to offer his condolences to the children\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niger ranks as the poorest country in the world under the UN\u2019s 189-nation Human Development Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in the Sahel country have built thousands of straw huts to serve as classrooms, with children sometimes seated on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fires in these buildings are fairly common due to the flammable materials used, but such accidents have rarely proved fatal. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIAMEY, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Some 20 children died Tuesday after several classrooms caught fire at a school in Niger\u2019s capital Niamey, the fire service said. \u201cTwenty-one classrooms in straw huts caught fire. Around 20 children were trapped in the blaze,\u201d fire service commander Sidi Mohamed said on public television. \u201cRescuers set off rapidly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}