A fire rips through an orphanage run by an American church in Haiti, killing 15 children and prompting the President of the island nation, Jovenel Moise, to call for an investigation.
Fifteen children have died in a fire that swept through an orphanage in Haiti run by a US religious group, triggering renewed controversy over the hundreds of unlicensed orphanages in the poorest nation in the Americas.
Children at the orphanage were said to be using candles before the fire due to a power outage The orphanage is run by an American church based out of Pennsylvania and is one of hundreds of such institutions on the island, many unlicensed The church is yet to comment on the fire, while Haiti's President Jovenel Moise called for an investigation The cause of the blaze at the Pennsylvania-based Church of Bible Understanding's orphanage in Kenscoff, just south of the capital, was not clear. One of the children at the orphanage told Reuters they had been using candles because the power in the block was out and a generator was not working. Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin, director of Haiti's Institute for Social Welfare and Research, said the US religious group did not have a licence to operate the institution, which housed around 60 children.
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