Government shuts down Arabiyya School after cracked wall topples
04 Mar 2010, 5:27 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The government has decided to shut down Arabiyya School in Male’ after cracks in the building caused a wall to collapse yesterday.
Nobody was physically injured in the collapse but the principal, Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim Rasheed, said two students suffered shock.
He said that the school had been aware of the condition of the school’s walls six years ago.
”The school was built out of granite 20 years ago,” Rasheed said. ”We knew this six years ago and we had been informing the education ministry about the problem ever since.”
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