MONROVIA (REUTERS) - At least 30 children in Liberia were killed in a fire at their school, police said on Wednesday (Sept 18).

"The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,"police spokesman Moses Carter said. "The cause is not known yet." The fire started late on Tuesday (Sept 17) in the suburbs of the capital Monrovia, President George Weah said in a tweet.