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Niger: ‘Total mourning’ as 20 pre-school children perish in fire

Al Jazeera, 15 Apr 2021
People in Niger are mourning 20 pre-school children – aged between three and five – trapped in the flames of a horrific fire at a school on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Niamey.
The young victims perished on Tuesday when the blaze tore through buildings made of wood and straw in the impoverished poor “Pays-Bas” neighbourhood that was built in a former clay quarry near Niamey airport.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Chappelle reports.

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