Peshawar, Oct 15 (V7N)- At least 27 students and a teacher were killed when the roof of a private school collapsed in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a report by Dawn.
The tragic incident occurred during class on Thursday morning, October 15.
Mohammad Asim, a spokesperson for Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, said all the students killed in the collapse were under the age of 13.
At least 40 other people were receiving treatment at hospitals for injuries sustained in the incident. The exact cause of the collapse was not immediately known.
Emergency services were conducting rescue operations at the site amid fears that more people could be trapped beneath the rubble, raising concerns that the death toll could increase.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi expressed grief over the tragedy and ordered a proper investigation to determine the cause of the collapse.
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