An Egyptian sets himself on fire in front of his son’s school … and that’s what his wife revealed

Egypt’s education sector witnessed a painful accident after a student’s guardian set himself on fire yesterday Saturday in an education department in the north of the country after his son’s school refused. to hand him the textbooks.

In the details of the incident, reported by local media, a man named “AM” poured alcohol on his clothes inside the Kafr Al-Dawwar Educational Administration building in Buhaira Governorate (North), in protest against what he said was “mistreatment by the school principal and his refusal to hand over the textbooks” to his son.

According to preliminary investigations, the man who started the fire himself is the father of a first grade student, and that some employees intervened to put out the fire and managed to save him before he was transferred to a public hospital. for treatment.

The wife said the reason for what her husband did was the “mistreatment” he received from the school principal and the head of the school administration, and that he was beaten by the security of the school administration, not to mention the loss. their son’s file from the official documents.

The wife added that after her husband’s accident a school employee came to take books with him and said: “The fees have been paid, the file has been found and is registered at the school.”

Immediately after the incident, the education administration of Al-Buhaira governorate issued a decision to dismiss the principal of the aforementioned school and send her back to the investigation for failing to deliver textbooks to one of the school’s students and for “violation. ministerial decisions and intransigence in this regard “.

Over the past two weeks, the school year in Egypt has witnessed a number of tragic incidents, including the death of a girl and the injuries of 15 others following the collapse of a ladder at Al-Mutamadiya preparatory school for girls. in the Kerdasa Education Directorate in Giza Governorate, and another died in the elementary stage after falling off the third floor of a school in Agouza, Giza, due to what officials attributed to “stampede among students as they went out during recess. “