Fire Breaks out in Bangkok School Dormitory, 17 Girls Killed

Five girls were injured and two are still missing, according to reports.

• Fire swept through a dormitory at a school for girls from poor families in Thailand, killing at least 17 of them and injuring five, police said on Monday.
  
  
• The fire broke out late on Sunday as the girls – aged five to 12 – slept at the Christian school in the northern province of Chiang Rai. The school is for girls from the area’s hill-tribe villages.
  
  
• “Most of the losses were because the children were asleep,” said district police Chief Colonel Prayad Singsin. The fire has been put out, but the cause has still not been ascertained.

(With inputs from Reuters)