Classroom fire kills 15 Iranian students
AFP, Tehran
A teacher and 15 schoolchildren were killed when their classroom went up in flames in a village in southwestern Iran yesterday, the state news agency IRNA reported. "Unfortunately 15 students and their teacher were killed in the classroom blaze when the oil heater caught fire," said an education official in the village of Safilian in Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province. The fire intensified after students rushing out of the room in the village school knocked over an oil drum, the official added.
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