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25 people, mostly students, killed in Malaysia school fire — official

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said. The blaze broke out in the school, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in a mainly Malay settlement of Datuk Keramat just before dawn. “The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens,” Khirudin Drahman, director of Kuala Lumpur’s fire and rescue department told AFP. “They could have died […]