Fire Kills At Least 17 Schoolgirls in Thailand Dormitory

A fire in a school dormitory in northern Thailand Sunday has killed at least 17 girls.

Thirty-eight pupils, between the ages of six and 13, were staying at the Pithakkiart Witthaya school in Chiang Rai, when the building caught fire during the night, Agence France-Presse reports. The blaze injured five girls, two severely.

Many of the students were reportedly asleep when the fire broke out in the two-storey building and were unable to escape.