Police to charge 15 year old teen girl with murder, over deliberately set dorm fire.

The Mahdia Secondary School student, who allegedly burned down the institution’s dormitory and caused the death of 19 schoolmates, would be charged with murder, police said Sunday.

“Legal advice was obtained to charge the suspect with 19 counts of murder,” Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Police Commissioner Wendell Blanhum said

Though the girl is older than 14 years old and would be charged as an adult, Guyana’s juvenile law prohibits the naming of accused or convicted children. The teen will make a court appearance sometime this week.

A report from Guyana’s media outlet, the News Room, said they were reliably informed that the file was sent to the police with recommendations that the girl faces a murder charge for each life claimed in the horrific fire.

There were 57 female students in the wooden, concrete and iron-grilled dorm when the fire tore through the building in Mahdia township. The victims were mostly aged 12 to 18. The fire killed 18 female students and the five-year-old son of the administrator — or dorm mother. Twenty-eight injured female students were treated in hospitals, police said.

Investigations so far "reveal that a female student is suspected of having set the devastating fire because her cellular phone was taken away by the dorm’s mother and a teacher,” a police statement said.

Police said surviving students have been interviewed and that evidence gathered at the scene was being forwarded to prosecutors

One of the victims was injured so severely she was med-evac'ed from Guyana to Staten Island.

Guyana’s Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand named the victims as Tracil Thomas, Lisa Roberts, Delecia Edwards, Lorita Williams, Natalie Bellarmine, Arriana Edwards, Cleoma Simon, Subrina John, Martha Dandrade, Loreen Evans, Belnisa Evans, Mary Dandrade, Omerfia Edwin, Nickleen Robinson, Sherena Daniels, Eulander Carter, Andrea Roberts and Rita Jeffrey. Five-year-old Adanye Jerome, the lone male victim, was the dorm mother’s son

The DNA results for the burnt unrecognised remains have since been returned, and so their identities have been confirmed. The bodies are to be handed over to families for burial.