7 female students die in Kano after huge blaze at school hostel

Seven female students have been confirmed dead while as many as 21 injured after a Government Girls Secondary School in Jogana, Kano was engulfed by huge blaze in the hostel dormitories on Sunday morning while the students were fast asleep at about 2:00am.

The recorded deaths resulted from suffocation and stampede as hundreds of students rushed to escape the blaze through two exits. The bodies of the dead girls was confirmed by hospital and school officials, with the confirmation that their bodies have been deposited at Murtala Mohammed Specialists Hospital.