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In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the cause of a fire at Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary School, even as al­le­ga­tions have sur­faced that Form Five stu­dents may have been in­volved.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said the mat­ter re­mains un­der ac­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tion, with no ev­i­dence so far to sup­port claims of stu­dent in­volve­ment.

He said the in­ci­dent oc­curred on Mon­day when smoke was first de­tect­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1:50 pm on the top floor of the Form Five build­ing block.