{"id":93367,"date":"2017-03-10T01:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93367"},"modified":"2017-03-10T01:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:45:28","slug":"death-toll-climbs-to-33-at-guatemala-teen-shelter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/10\/death-toll-climbs-to-33-at-guatemala-teen-shelter-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll climbs to 33 at Guatemala teen shelter fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93368\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fire-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93368\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fire-2.png\" alt=\"The death toll from a tragic fire at a Guatemalan shelter for children and adolescents climbed to 33 on Thursday, local media said. (Photo:  www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos\/Flickr)\" width=\"520\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fire-2.png 520w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fire-2-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The death toll from a tragic fire at a Guatemalan shelter for children and adolescents climbed to 33 on Thursday, local media said. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/137643065@N06\/24216489582\/\">www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GUATEMALA CITY\u2014The death toll from a tragic fire at a Guatemalan shelter for children and adolescents climbed to 33 on Thursday, local media said.<\/p>\n<p>The daily Prensa Libre reported that another 21 children were in critical condition with second and third degree burns over at least 50 percent of their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chances that the minors admitted to the hospitals of San Juan de Dios and Roosevelt will survive are low,&#8221; the daily said while citing hospital officials.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out late Tuesday night at the Virgen de la Asuncion Shelter in San Jose Pinula in the central department of Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>Children rioting at the shelter to protest poor treatment reportedly set fire to mattresses and the flames spread through the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The daily said stories of abuse were emerging following the tragedy, including sexual abuse, violence, drugs and general mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>The Guatemalan shelter was designed to house 400 children, mainly girls from broken or abusive homes, but some 600 children and teenagers were living there, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUATEMALA CITY\u2014The death toll from a tragic fire at a Guatemalan shelter for children and adolescents climbed to 33 on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[16426],"class_list":["post-93367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-virgen-de-la-asuncion-shelter","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}