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> Lee wrote
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>> That little cunt needs to be working the shipyards and fucking
>> sailors all night every night for the rest of her life.

Georgetown, Guyana � Investigators in Guyana believe a fire that killed 19
mostly girls trapped in a school dormitory late on Sunday was deliberately
set by a student who was upset that her mobile phone was confiscated, a
top official said Tuesday. The suspect, who is among several injured
people, had been disciplined by the dorm administrator for having an
affair with an older man, National Security Adviser Gerald Gouveia said.

The student had allegedly threatened to torch the dorm and later set a
fire in a bathroom area, Gouveia said.

The fire raced through the wood, concrete and iron-grilled building after
it was locked for the night by the dorm administrator � or house mother �
to prevent the girls from sneaking out, Gouveia said.

"She did this out of love for them. She felt she was forced to do so
because many of them leave the building at night to socialize," Gouveia
told The Associated Press. "This is a very sad situation, but the state is
going to work with the students and the families to provide all the
support they need."

All but one of the victims were Indigenous girls aged 12 to 18 from remote
villages served by the boarding school in Mahdia, a mining community near
the Brazil border. The remaining victim was the five-year-old son of the
house mother.

Many of the victims were trapped as the building burned, though
firefighters were able to rescue people by breaking holes through one of
the walls.

"The house mother was asleep at the time inside the building but panicked
and could not find the right keys to unlock the building from inside, but
she made it out. She also lost her five-year-old child in the fire,"
Gouveia said.

Many of the nine people hospitalized victims are in serious condition.

Police were expected to charge the man who had the relationship with the
student with statutory rape because she was under 16, Gouveia said.

Guyana's government has accepted offers from the U.S. to send forensic and
other expert teams to help with the investigation, Gouveia said. The
government also was sending specialists in DNA identification to help
identify remains of 13 of the 19 victims who died at the scene.

"Leaders from all over the world have been offering to help us at this
time. They were calling and messaging President Ali (Irfaan) while he was
on the ground in Madhia on Monday," Gouveia said.

Madhia is a gold and diamond mining town about 200 miles from the capital,
Georgetown.

Deputy Fire Chief Dwayne Scotland told the AP that more lives could have
been saved if the service had been informed of the blaze sooner. When
firefighters arrived, local residents were unsuccessfully struggling to
douse the blaze and evacuate people, he said.

"The building was well engulfed," he said.

This week's dormitory fire outranked what had been the country's deadliest
fire in recent times, when 17 inmates were killed at the main Georgetown
prison in 2016. Angry over trial delays and overcrowding, some inmates set
fire to the building, built to house 500 but containing 1,100, resulting
in the deaths of the 17 and severe injuries to about a dozen others.

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