Deadly fire at Kuala Lumpur school
At least 25 students and teachers have been killed in a fire at a religious school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, officials say.
The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning at the school in the Jalan Datuk Keramat area.
“The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens,” Khirudin Drahman, director of the city’s fire and rescue department, told the AFP news agency.
Their ages were not immediately clear.
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