Pupils who were due to sit examinations at their high school in South Africa are suspected of being behind a fire on Wednesday, which burned down the building, police said.
Two classrooms in a prefabricated building at Durban’s Star College were burned to the ground, hours before pupils were to have sat matriculation and internal exams.
Superintendent Danelia Veldhuizen confirmed that police suspected arsonists may have been trying to have their tests postponed.
“They were writing exams there. There is the suspicion it may have been an attempt to postpone the exams,” she told the South African Press Association. — AFP