The blaze broke out before dawn on Thursday in the two-storey building of the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah school, located in the centre of the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Khirudin Drahman, the director of Kuala Lumpur’s fire and rescue department, said: “It really does not make sense for so many to die in the fire. It is one of the worst fires involving so many lives in the capital in recent years. In August 16 people, including eight students, had fled an early-morning fire at a family-run tahfiz in Baling, in the northern state of Kedah, the paper reported. There were 519 tahfiz schools registered across the country as of April, but many more were believed to be unregistered, the paper said.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2017 03:14 UTC