KLANG: Twenty-five students and two religious teachers at a tahfiz in Kapar near here had a narrow escape when the roof of their residential school caught fire Monday afternoon. They were all downstairs at a classroom when the fire broke out in one of the four bedrooms of the Nurul Al-Quran tahfiz at about 2.30pm. Three fire engines, one each from the Sungai Pinang, Kota Raja and Kapar fire stations, rushed to the scene after receiving a distress call at 2.45pm. Also at the scene was Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar's political secretary Datuk Faisal Abdullah. According to Faisal, the tahfiz was not registered with the Selangor Islamic Religious Department.

Source: The Star October 09, 2017 12:22 UTC