A 15-year-old girl from Guyana has been charged with the murder of 19 people after she allegedly set fire to a dorm out of anger her phone was confiscated.
ordered that the 15-year-old girl be held in custody pending further hearings after she appeared virtually for the proceedings Monday. State and defense attorneys will then decide whether they are ready to start a preliminary trial.
The 15-year-old could face up to life in prison if she is found guilty of purposefully setting fire to the Mahdia Secondary School earlier this month.The school, a government boarding school that serves remote indigenous villages in the country’s southwest, was found ablaze shortly before midnight May 21.to rescue them from the burning building heavily constructed with iron grills.
Children rescued during a Mahdia secondary school dormitory fire are transferred by medical personnel to hospitals in Gorgetown, Guyana, May 22, 2023. At least 19 people have died in a fire in a school dormitory in central Guyana, the government announced in a statement released early Monday morning.
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