40 Girls Killed in Blaze at Tanzanian High School
<i> Reuters</i>
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania —
Forty girls were killed in a blaze at their high school in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region in the foothills of Africa’s highest mountain, local officials said Monday.
The fire Saturday gutted a dormitory and two other buildings at the school.
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