3 French Teen-Agers Die in Fire at Special School
Reuters
TOULOUSE, France —
Three mentally handicapped teen-agers died and five others were seriously injured in a fire at a boarding school in southwest France overnight, police said Sunday.
A director of the school in the village of Lapanouse-de-Severac told French television that the students’ slow reaction to danger had hampered a quick evacuation.
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