At least 23 children have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb near the Liberian capital Monrovia.

The fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when school students were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque.

The BBC quotes police sources as saying that they are still looking for bodies in the ruins of the building.

President George Weah has tweeted his condolences to bereaved families...