{"id":9527,"date":"2019-09-19T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:50:34","slug":"school-fire-leaves-many-children-dead-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9527","title":{"rendered":"School Fire Leaves Many Children Dead in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding Quranic school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is believed to have broken out around midnight gutted a dormitory and school building where students slept about 11 kilometres east of Monrovia, police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Only the imam and two students escaped, he said. The blaze was electrical, he said, adding the cause of the fire was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of grief-stricken people stood in shock as ambulances took away the bodies. Others wailed and wept as police pushed back a curious, surging crowd.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9528\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crowds-of-people-gathered-near-the-school-on-Wednesday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crowds-of-people-gathered-near-the-school-on-Wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crowds-of-people-gathered-near-the-school-on-Wednesday.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crowds-of-people-gathered-near-the-school-on-Wednesday-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crowds-of-people-gathered-near-the-school-on-Wednesday-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds of people gathered near the school on Wednesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Officials told AFP news agency that the victims were 10 years old and above.<\/p>\n<p>One of the visitors in the morning was President Weah. He was due to attend the funeral at mosque in Monrovia in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding Quranic school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire is believed to have broken out around midnight gutted a dormitory and school building where students slept about 11 kilometres east of Monrovia, police spokesman said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}