{"id":303245,"date":"2023-05-22T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=303245"},"modified":"2023-05-22T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:59:20","slug":"ap-news-fire-razes-school-dormitory-in-guyana-killing-at-least-19-children-many-of-them-indigenous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/ap-news-fire-razes-school-dormitory-in-guyana-killing-at-least-19-children-many-of-them-indigenous\/","title":{"rendered":"[AP News] Fire razes school dormitory in Guyana, killing at least 19 children, many of them Indigenous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-303246\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1000-642x482.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-80 p Component-p-0-2-70\">GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) \u2014 A nighttime fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 19 students and injuring several others at a boarding school catering to remote, mostly Indigenous villages, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-80 p Component-p-0-2-70\">\u201cThis is a horrific incident. 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It\u2019s painful,\u201d President Irfaan Ali said, adding that his government was mobilizing all possible resources to care for the children.<\/p>\n<p>Continue <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/guyana-fire-school-students-killed-eeb69127d7e1f0e6ea7789fcac893e33\">reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) \u2014 A nighttime fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 19 students and injuring several others at a boarding school catering to remote, mostly Indigenous villages, authorities said. \u201cThis is a horrific&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":303246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,77,235,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-tragedy","category-educationyouth","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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