School dormitory fire in Guyana kills at least 20 pupils

Fire began shortly after midnight at school serving mostly Indigenous young people aged 12-18, say officials

At least 20 pupils have been killed in a fire in a school dormitory in Guyana, authorities have said.

The Guyanese government said in a press statement that the fire broke out in the dormitory building of a secondary school in the south-western border town of Mahdia, 200 miles (320km) south of the capital, Georgetown.