(UDHAYAM, GUATEMALA) – Fire broke out when residents set mattresses ablaze after an overnight riot and attempt to escape from the overcrowded government-run center, foreign media reports.
At least 22 girls have been killed in a fire at a government-run home for abused teens, which broke out when residents set mattresses ablaze after an overnight riot and attempt to escape from the overcrowded government-run center.
A crowd of relatives, many of them wailing with grief, gathered outside the Virgen de Asunción home for children up to 18 years old, in the semi-rural suburb of San José Pinula, 25km (15 miles) south-west of the capital, Guatemala City.