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01/09/2009
School Blaze Fails To Halt New Term
The latest in a series of suspect blazes at NI schools has destroyed a dinner hall.
The canteen fire - at a school in west Belfast - is being treated as suspicious, police have said.
Five fire appliances were involved in tackling the blaze at Corpus Christi College, off the Falls Road, which was reported at 10pm on Sunday
School principal Isobel Russell said everyone was very upset at what had happened.
Speaking on BBC TV news she said: "To come here on a Sunday night and look at the state of the canteen is very demoralising," but noted that pupils and staff were asked to come in as normal when the school reopened on Tuesday morning.
Numerous attacks have been made on school premises across NI over the summer holidays, with the latest being in Castlewellan, at an irish language school, where temporary classrooms were razed last week.
Elsehwere, during the past weekend, a fire at a block of flats in Craigavon - from which four people were rescued - is also being treated as suspicious by police.
The blaze broke out on the first floor of flats at Moyraverty in the early hours of Sunday morning and it took around 30 firefighters to tackle the blaze.
See: Plans Already Passed For Arson Hit School
(BMcC)
The canteen fire - at a school in west Belfast - is being treated as suspicious, police have said.
Five fire appliances were involved in tackling the blaze at Corpus Christi College, off the Falls Road, which was reported at 10pm on Sunday
School principal Isobel Russell said everyone was very upset at what had happened.
Speaking on BBC TV news she said: "To come here on a Sunday night and look at the state of the canteen is very demoralising," but noted that pupils and staff were asked to come in as normal when the school reopened on Tuesday morning.
Numerous attacks have been made on school premises across NI over the summer holidays, with the latest being in Castlewellan, at an irish language school, where temporary classrooms were razed last week.
Elsehwere, during the past weekend, a fire at a block of flats in Craigavon - from which four people were rescued - is also being treated as suspicious by police.
The blaze broke out on the first floor of flats at Moyraverty in the early hours of Sunday morning and it took around 30 firefighters to tackle the blaze.
See: Plans Already Passed For Arson Hit School
(BMcC)
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