{"id":21778,"date":"2021-04-15T04:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=21778"},"modified":"2021-04-15T04:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T03:55:34","slug":"20-pupils-die-in-school-fire-after-being-trapped-in-niger-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/15\/20-pupils-die-in-school-fire-after-being-trapped-in-niger-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"20 pupils die in school fire after being trapped in Niger Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lives of 20 nursery school children were cut short on Tuesday as they were trapped in straw-hut classrooms in Niamey, Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the state fire service, Bako Boubacar, confirmed the deaths, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 20 deaths, most of them young children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Boubacar, however, said the cause of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/13\/traders-count-loses-as-fire-razes-another-market-in-ibadan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire<\/a> is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>An official of Niger Republic\u2019s teachers union, Mounkaila Halidou, said the school in the popular Pays Bas neighbourhood had around 800 students, including children in the nursery section.<\/p>\n<p>Halidou said the fire started near the school gate and since there was no emergency exit, many were forced to scale the fence, while others were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/11\/many-nigerians-trapped-as-volcano-hits-caribbean-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trapped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a majority of the children who died are in preschool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire apparently started around the school gate. 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