Teen's confiscated phone leads to deadly dorm fire in Guyana.
Prosecutors in Guyana are considering what charges to bring against a teenage suspect who is believed to have started a fire that destroyed a girl's dormitory at a school, killing 18 students and a young boy. The suspect, who was injured in the blaze, is thought to have ignited the fire in anger over having her mobile phone confiscated by an administrator at the government boarding school serving Indigenous villages in southwestern Guyana. The suspect, who was expected to be released from hospital this week, was 14, but fire department officials who interviewed her over the past two days maintained she was 15, which would mean she could potentially be indicted as an adult on arson and murder charges.
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