“Gone Girl” almost had a different star.
30.05.2023 - 19:57 / perezhilton.com
To say this was a bit of an overreaction is an understatement…
A 15-year-old girl from Mahdia, Guyana has been arrested and charged with the murders of 18 schoolgirls and a 5-year-old boy after she allegedly set fire to her school’s dormitory earlier this month.
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According to the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service, the Mahdia Secondary School was engulfed in flames just before midnight on May 21. At the time there were 56 students in total present in the dormitory. All of the windows in the wooden building were barred, and five entrances were locked, trapping many of the victims.
This wasn’t the teen’s doing. According to AP, Guyana National Security Advisor Gerald Gouveia explained the doors and windows were blocked like this to prevent any of the students from sneaking out at night. Unfortunately it also kept them from escaping during the inferno.
Among the victims, 13 additional female students were transferred to local hospitals with injuries, with one being brought all the way to New York City over the weekend to Staten Island University Hospital due to the severity of her burns, per Guyana’s Department of Public Information:
On the day of the fire, Guyanese President Dr. Irfaan Ali said many of the victims’ bodies were “burned beyond recognition” and have been sent to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC for identification. Since then, the DPI reports all of the victims have been positively identified, while the president said in a press conference over the weekend:
The 5-year-old boy who was killed in the fire was identified as the school administrator’s son. So, so tragic. And soon after the fire ended, police found what they
“Gone Girl” almost had a different star.
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