At least 17 teenage girls killed in shelter fire: police
The blaze started in the female residence at the Virgin of the Assumption home for minors, located just east of the capital Guatemala City.
A police official, Stu Velasco, said there were "more than 17 bodies of girls" inside, all of them aged 14 to 17.
A spokesman for the fire service had earlier given a toll of 19 bodies counted.
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