Fire swept through a dormitory at a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at least 17 and injuring five, police said on Monday.
The fire broke out late on Sunday as the girls, aged five to 12, slept at the Christian Pitakiatwittaya School in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
"Most of the losses were because the children were asleep," said district police chief Colonel Prayad Singsin.
Two of the injured were in critical condition, he said.
Forensic experts sifted through the debris and ashes inside the concrete shell of the school dormitory building on Monday.
Preliminary indications suggested a faulty fluorescent light on the ground floor may have been the cause, Sant Sukhavachana, a senior regional forensics officer, told Reuters.
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