Pakistan: School roof collapses. At least 33 dead
The Pakistani police have announced the arrest of the owner of the private school where the tragedy took place. The collapse occurred in Peshawar, in the north-west of the country
from our correspondent Marco Masciaga
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NEW DELHI – The death toll from the collapse of a school roof on Thursday morning in Peshawar, in northern Pakistan, has risen to 33, including 32 children and one teacher. This was announced by the authorities. Dozens of other people were injured. Heavy rain overnight had weakened the roof of a two-storey building at the private ‘Al Khair Public School’ in Peshawar, causing it to collapse, Bilal Ahmed of the local emergency services told CNN.
A Pakistani police spokesperson has stated that the owner of the school in Peshawar where a roof collapsed, killing around 30 children and a teacher, has been arrested.
According to a statement from the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, where the injured were taken, the children who died were aged between six and 14. The teacher, meanwhile, was 25 years old. Some children are still trapped under the rubble and rescue workers are working to reach them, Ahmed said.
Poor quality of state schools
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces into which this densely populated Asian country is divided, and was known until a few years ago as the North-West Frontier Province.
