Parents burn down school after meals aren't served on schedule

The Philippine government introduced a system to provide free school lunches to boost attendance, but when lunches were not provided as scheduled, angry parents burned down the school.

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The fire occurred at Gaib Elementary School in Masbate, Philippines. The area police chief said that when he went to the school site, he saw nothing but a wall of flames. Since no one was inside the school at the time, no one was injured.

In order to improve attendance, the government established a system to provide poor students with 1 kg of rice every day, but several angry parents set fire to the school, claiming that the teachers were not providing the rice as required.

The school had about 150 children between the ages of 5 and 10 enrolled, but there is no space for them to attend classes in the future. Many important documents were also lost in the fire. 'The perpetrators have not been arrested, but legal action will be taken immediately,' police said.