Student Sets Fire to Guyana Dorm After Phone Confiscated, Killing 19

A fire in a Guyana school dorm killed 19 people, mostly Indigenous girls between ages 12 and 18, after a student set the fire in anger over having her phone taken away.
The teenage girl admitted to starting the arson attack and is under police guard in the hospital; authorities are determining whether to charge her.
The fire broke out around midnight Monday at the Mahdia Secondary School dorm, trapping students inside the locked building.
More than 20 other students were hospitalized, some flown to the capital for treatment, and the government declared three days of mourning.
The US offered to send forensic experts to help investigate the deadliest fire in Guyana's recent history.