Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org
Smoke escapes from a window at Kiev's Simcha School.
KIEV, Ukraine — The Simcha School in Kiev, Ukraine, caught fire Wednesday evening in what officials suspected was an act of arson committed by anti-Semites.
Firefighters had the last of the flames put out by 5 p.m., according to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, principal of the school, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary.
Fire Strikes Kiev School
Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org
Smoke escapes from a window at Kiev’s Simcha School.
KIEV, Ukraine — The Simcha School in Kiev, Ukraine, caught fire Wednesday evening in what officials suspected was an act of arson committed by anti-Semites.
Firefighters had the last of the flames put out by 5 p.m., according to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, principal of the school, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary.
“There is a lot of damage,” he said. “The entranceway was burnt, as well as other equipment, but thankfully the classrooms appear to have emerged unscathed.”
Still, he said, the school’s 600 students from kindergarten through post high school would not be able to return to class until the building airs out and authorities are better able to assess the situation.
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this is such sad news to hear the kids are forsure happt they dont have school but the parents uy gavaldik