Twelve people, including eleven teenage students, were killed and twenty-two others were wounded when a fire swept through a girls dormitory in the province of Adana on Tuesday night.

Authorities say that the fire, which broke out in a dormitory housing middle and high school students, may have been caused by an electrical fault.

The dormitory housed impoverished girls whose families coming from nearby villages where there are no schools.

Television footage showed a blaze rising from the rooftop of a multi-storey building.

Firefighters were able to put out the flames in three hours.

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