Ninth child dies after Brazilian nursery school fire

A victim of the municipal daycare centre - where a watchman sprayed children with alcohol and set them on fire - is admitted to hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, on Oct 5, 2017.

RIO DE JANEIRO: A ninth child died Monday (Oct 9) from burns caused when the security guard at a nursery school in Brazil sprayed children with flammable alcohol and started a fire.
The five-year-old boy died during overnight Sunday to Monday, the hospital treating him said in a statement.
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The total toll from Thursday's blaze is now 11: Nine children, the teacher who died trying to save pupils, and the security guard. About 40 people were injured and 19 were still in hospital, including three in a serious condition.

On Sunday, Brazilian President Michel Temer posthumously decorated the 43-year-old teacher, Heley de Abreu Silva Batista, for her bravery during the fire at the nursery school in Janauba, a small town about 600km from the state capital of Minas Gerais.

Authorities say that the security guard had been suffering mental problems since 2014.​