Story highlights The blaze started after some residents set fire to a mattress, says Guatemalan officialGuatemala's president has declared three days of mourning(CNN) Twenty people were killed after a fire tore through a youth home on Wednesday in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala, the country's National Civil Police said. Video from the scene showed sobbing family members outside the home, banging on the doors looking for loved ones. A victim of Wednesday's fire at Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home is rushed to a hospital in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala. The blaze started when some of the youths in the home set fire to a mattress on their way to breakfast, said Abner David Paredes Cruz, the attorney for Guatemala's Human Rights office. Some residents have been abandoned, addicted to drugs, or been victims of trafficking, the Guatemalan government saidRead More

Source: CNN March 09, 2017 00:59 UTC