Fire Kills Nine Children At Senegalese Koranic School

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Fire Kills Nine Children At Senegalese Koranic School

Monday, 04 March 2013 20:48

(Reuters) – Nine children were burnt to death in a fire that broke out while they were sleeping in a crowded room at a Koranic school in the Senegalese capital Dakar, witnesses said on Monday.

The fire occurred late on Sunday while some 40 children were asleep in a single room inside the ramshackle building with wooden walls and zinc roofing in the residential district of Medina, local residents said.

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“When the fire started, a fire brigade truck came but could not get access to the site because of the narrow road leading to the house,” restaurant worker Saliou Gano, 45, told Reuters.

Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall told RFM radio the ramshackle development of the Senegalese capital made it impossible for emergency services to operate in its sandy alleys and backstreets.

Thousands of children from rural areas are sent to Dakar by poor parents to study at Koranic schools. With no money to pay for lodging, many of them end up begging on the streets.
(Reporting by Diadie Ba; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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-5 #15 2013-03-07 11:45

in the case of marabou being paid withcase or what ever they recieved in token as to killed a person is there own business and problem with God when they die we christains do not have those habit recieving money for taking someone´s life . our priest are honest to God .Do not kill God does not authorise killing among us.

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-5 #14 2013-03-06 13:23

Quoting Malick:

Quoting Dr:
Because we are full of sick & ego-centric MORONS

I am glad u knew these words...but when sick serial killer Yaya...curer of hiv, diabetes, sickle-cell, hypertension, fertility, ashma etc with banana and jalang water and talks to demons...... is inevitably caught under his bed with his unwashed fat dirty bottom hiding...U will finally know what a monster, serial killer, sick, ego centric, moron looks like, since you still believe his own family haruna jammeh et al (rip) are drinking green tea in Kanalia. Before that inevitable day...I am not surprise you call whole Gambia including your parents sick & ego-centric morons when you don't know better in life.

voila... here is one of dem sick morons

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+1 #13 2013-03-06 12:56

Quoting Dr:

Because we are full of sick & ego-centric MORONS

I am glad u knew these words...but when sick serial killer Yaya...curer of hiv, diabetes, sickle-cell, hypertension, fertility, ashma etc with banana and jalang water and talks to demons...... is inevitably caught under his bed with his unwashed fat dirty bottom hiding...U will finally know what a monster, serial killer, sick, ego centric, moron looks like, since you still believe his own family haruna jammeh et al (rip) are drinking green tea in Kanalia. Before that inevitable day...I am not surprise you call whole Gambia including your parents sick & ego-centric morons when you don't know better in life.

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-4 #12 2013-03-06 12:50

it is ur habit and ur futures shall continue to be in this way .inGod i trust there i have no grounds to accuse any person earth . if u hate jammeh for reason u know i have no intentation to follow ur attitudes against him too am a christain i blieve in not judge and i shall not be judge

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-4 #11 2013-03-06 12:01

Quoting Assan:

This is so sad... 40 children in a single room..? The governments of Senegal continue to fail in protecting these vulnerable children from such exploitation and abuse...

Politicians are often too intimidated by the significant social, political and economic power of `marabouts’, to crack down on them...

Where is Amnesty International or all those human righ watch..? Why are they all over our case, in Gambia but, won't agreesively work to protect the most vunerable in this society..?
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Because we are full of sick & ego-centric MORONS

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-5 #10 2013-03-06 11:57

Quoting Malick:

Quoting Gambianokid:
Gam-Unpatriot,

Everything happening even elsewhere is Jammeh's fault, at least in your narrow vista. Have you been drinking, Sir?

So chronic ignorant of yo world u are unlike and our blood Senegalese haters like Yaya...Gampatriot mean we have the worse in Gambia, where maraboust are paid to have their colleagues murder n torture, and pray to God for Gambians to live under tyranny. Worse is the blessing of Yaya ritual killings and engaged in Jalang worshiping in Kanilai.....am sure your parents knew as all Gambians nowadays. So we have it worse Kid. We are in this exiles paper to bring Democracy to Gambians D Senegalese are enjoying and voicing their deficiencies to be a better society unlike Gambians under a domou haram savage. Bulyap Nitnjee....u a chronic enforced ignorant youngman in this modern age.

What a sick moron....

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+2 #9 2013-03-05 23:02

Quoting Assan:

But,still,I believe more action is warranted by the international humanitarian communities..

Dr Assan,is all about the failures of African politicians.Some of our leaderships/rulers are wealthier that these organisations yet still we continue to be beggers.This kind of tragedies should be a shame to our African politicains,the y are looting our resources to satisfy their selfish desires/greed or capitalist lifes and ignoring their people to die like flies.African politicains are less concern about the value lifes to a nation.How can we expect to be progressive when we are killing our future tax-payers/brains,sending them into exile or leaving them to die of hunger and starvation??
It is shame for Africans to put too much burdens on humanitarian organisation when a single Senegalese politician(not even the government)can actually build a proper school/housing for these children.
Our corrupt politicians are murderers,destr oying the continent.

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+1 #8 2013-03-05 20:50

Quoting Gambianokid:

Gam-Unpatriot,

Everything happening even elsewhere is Jammeh's fault, at least in your narrow vista. Have you been drinking, Sir?

So chronic ignorant of yo world u are unlike and our blood Senegalese haters like Yaya...Gampatriot mean we have the worse in Gambia, where maraboust are paid to have their colleagues murder n torture, and pray to God for Gambians to live under tyranny. Worse is the blessing of Yaya ritual killings and engaged in Jalang worshiping in Kanilai.....am sure your parents knew as all Gambians nowadays. So we have it worse Kid. We are in this exiles paper to bring Democracy to Gambians D Senegalese are enjoying and voicing their deficiencies to be a better society unlike Gambians under a domou haram savage. Bulyap Nitnjee....u a chronic enforced ignorant youngman in this modern age.

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-4 #7 2013-03-05 18:00

Quoting Gampatriot:

. No wonder the biggest criminal of all Yaya the Kanilai Monster has now become a marabout too.

Gam-Unpatriot,

Everything happening even elsewhere is Jammeh's fault, at least in your narrow vista. Have you been drinking, Sir?

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+1 #6 2013-03-05 16:40

Quoting Gampatriot:

Assan,
Human Rights Watch has already issued a statement on this issue. Please see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/world/africa/fire-in-senegal-kills-child-beggars-trapped-in-house.html
This Almoudi business is a shameful practice that should be banned. These marabouts are the bane of Africa and thrive in the ignorance of people and exploit their poverty for their personal benefit. No wonder the biggest criminal of all Yaya the Kanilai Monster has now become a marabout too.

Thanks for the information, my bro... But, still, I believe more action is warranted by the international humanitarian communities..

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