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仰光一学校发生火灾 13人死亡 A fire at a Muslim school in the Burmese city of Rangoon has killed 13 children, officials say. 缅甸城市仰光的一座穆斯林学校发生火灾，至少13名儿童死亡。 The school was badly burned but intact ? Police blamed an electrical fault for the blaze. Most of the children escaped unharmed. The school was badly burned. ? Riot police were sent to the area as people gathered, concerned that the fire was linked to recent communal violence in other parts of the country. ? At least 40 people have been killed since 20 March in the attacks which have mainly targeted minority Muslims. ? Police spokesman Thet Lwin told the AP news agency the two-storey building - part of a mosque - in eastern Rangoon sheltered about 75 orphans. ? Most of the children escaped by running out of a door after police knocked it open, he said. ? The Myanmar (Burma) Police Force said on its official Facebook page that the victims had died from burns or smoke inhalation. ? According to the investigation by township police officers, the fire was caused by excessively high (electric) voltage, it said. ? One report said all of the victims were boys. The dormitory had locked its doors because of the recent tensions, so the children struggled to escape, reports said.? ? The fire comes amid an upsurge in violence between Buddhists and Muslims.? ? On 22 March, a state of emergency was enforced in the central town of Meiktila in the Mandalay region, where violent clashes erupted between Muslim and Buddhist communities after a reported argument at a gold shop.? ? Many houses and buildings were destroyed in the town and thousands of people, mostly Muslims, displaced.? ? Curfews have since been imposed in other towns and villages after violence spread. ? The violence follows clashes last year in Rakhine state between the Buddhist community and Muslim Rohingyas - a stateless minority group not recognised by the Burmese government.? ? President Thein Sein has warned that the government will use force if necessary to stop political