Thirteen school children died in a dormitory fire in central China’s Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported
The blaze at the Yingcai School in Henan’s Yanshanpu village was reported to the local fire department at 11:00 pm (1500 GMT) Friday night, Xinhua said.
Thirteen students were confirmed dead and one injured.
A teacher at the school told state-run Hebei Daily that all the victims were from the same third-grade class of nine and 10-year-olds.
On Saturday evening AFP journalists saw the area around the school cordoned off, with more than a dozen police officers patrolling the scene
The owner of a supermarket told AFP she was asleep when the blaze took hold, but had heard about the tragedy.
“The kids at the school are definitely mostly living around this area,” she said of the nearby boarding school.
“Our kids don’t go there so we’re not sure about the details,” she added.
Other shopkeepers in the area said they too had gone to bed by the time the deadly fire hit the dormitory
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