Most of the victims were Indigenous girls from remote communities near Mahdia, a mining town near the border with Brazil. The 19th fatality was the dorm mother’s own 5-year-old son.

According to the Mahdia CoI report, there was a grave neglect of duty bordering on recklessness by those vested with power for the care and welfare of the country’s children residing in dormitories.

What was once a school’s dormitory in the Guyanese city of Mahdia became a barren landscape of charred concrete and ash after a blaze ripped through it on May 21. Twenty children perished in ...

The fire that engulfed Mahdia Secondary School’s female dormitory killed 18 girls and a boy, according to Guyana’s Department of Public Information (DPI), revising down its earlier death toll ...

Investigators accused the girl, who was not identified, of igniting the blaze at Mahdia Secondary School in anger with the administrator over the confiscation of her cellphone. The government ...

MAHDIA, Guyana -- At least 19 of the 20 people who died in a "horrific" school dormitory fire were children, officials said on Monday, after a blaze tore through the building in the Caribbean ...