Posted on 09/13/2017 8:36:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 ― The charred bodies of 22 students and two teachers were found on the second floor of a religious school here after a fire broke out in the building early this morning, police said today.
City police chief Datuk Amar Singh said there was only one door which was used as an exit and entrance way, making it hard for the victims, whose bodies were found stuck to each other, to escape the burning building at Datuk Keramat.
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A total of 36 students, aged between 13 and 17, and six teachers were living at the tahfiz (Quranic memorisation) school.
Firefighters were alerted at 5.45am and managed to completely douse the fire at 6.40am.
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Amar ruled out foul play and said investigations into the cause of the fire are being carried out. Forensics are still doing investigations here.
One of the religious teachers who escaped the fire said he woke up at 5.30am to the sound of gas hissing from above.
“It sounded like a storm to me,”
The 24-year-old said he was on the second floor with three other ustaz and he woke them up to save students on the second floor. He had gone to the first floor as the fire on the third floor was too big.
“We couldn't save all of them. There was not enough water to extinguish the fire,” he said, teary-eyed.
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That’s why we have 2 doors here.
When I read something like this I think of the Our Lady of the Angels fire that killed so many children back in 1958.
So a jihad training school lost some future suicide bombers. Big deal.
Justice?
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