Fire in China School Dorm Kills 13

A man pushes a tricycle beside a construction site in Beijing, China, 17 January 2024. EPA/WU HAO

A fire at a boarding school in central Henan province killed 13 people and injured another, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.
The fire broke out on Friday night at Yingcai School in Yanshanpu Village, near Nanyang City, China Central Television Station and Xinhua News Agency said.
The fire was extinguished quickly by firefighters and the head of the school was taken into custody, the reports said.
Yingcai is a private boarding school with kindergarten and an elementary school, said The Paper, a Shanghai government-backed news outlet.
The school gives students a break every two weeks but this was not a break weekend, The Paper said, citing several local residents.
Many of Yingcai's students are from rural areas, it said.
All of the dead were third grade students, a teacher told Zonglan news, a state-backed media outlet from Hebei province. One person rescued from the scene was being treated in the hospital, CCTV, China's state broadcaster said.