GEORGETOWN—A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday.
The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after her phone was confiscated, police said.
The girl is being held in Guyana’s juvenile detention center and the charges against her were formalized during a virtual hearing in Magistrate’s Court.
In the early hours of May 22, students awoke to screams and saw fire and smoke in the dormitory’s bathroom area, police said in a statement….