25 people die in a Malaysian school fire

Malaysian authorities have reported that 25 people, including students, lost their lives and four were injured following a fire that swept a religious school on Thursday morning.
“According to the information we have, 25 students and teachers were killed in the fire,” said a fire department officer to the Star newspaper. Another twelve students and two teachers were able to escape, of whom at least four have been hospitalized with critical prognosis.
The fatalities are 23 students and two teachers, but no further information has been provided on the wounded. The fire was declared shortly before sunrise in a school in the northeast of Kuala Lumpur and propagated on the second floor of the enclosure burning the rooms and bunks, as shown in photographs the newspaper.
“We believe that the fire started right at the door preventing any escape,” the media chief of the capital, Amar Singh, told the police. The officer reported that an investigation has been opened to determine the reasons for the fire.
The country’s prime minister, Najib Razak, sent his condolences to the relatives of the deceased in a message posted on Twitter from the United States where he is on official visit.
According to the Malaysian media account, firefighters alerted in August about the few fire safety measures in private religious centers. The authorities then remarked that since 2015 211 fires have been recorded in these precincts.