At least 33 pupils and teacher killed after school roof collapses in Pakistan
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On the ground in Pakistan as school roof collapse kills more than 30 children At least 33 pupils and a teacher have been killed after a school roof collapsed in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to hospital officials.
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More than a dozen others are injured, with some in a critical condition.
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Emergency services were called to the private Al-Khair school in Dir Colony at 08:48 (03:48 GMT) on Thursday after lessons had begun, rescue official Bilal Faizi told the BBC.
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The roof of an upper-floor classroom had collapsed, he said, causing ceilings below to cave in and trap children beneath the debris.
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Announcing the arrest of the school's owner, police chief Mian Saeed promised a thorough inquiry into "whether there were any violations of building codes".
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Warning: This article contains distressing details An English teacher from a nearby school said he immediately rushed to the site with other local residents when they heard sirens and the sound of ambulances.
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Together, they pulled more than 20 children from the rubble, he said.
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"I personally pulled out six children with my own hands.
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Most of them were alive and talking.
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But later it was found that they had passed away." "There was a lot of blood," he said. "One child said he was in a lot of pain.
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His tongue had dried up in his mouth, [and he was] asking for water." Sohail, another local resident, said he and others tried to remove children from under the rubble "using shovels". A rescue worker said an upper-floor roof collapsed, crashing through three classrooms The school building had been constructed on a temporary basis, according to emergency official Arif Khattak.
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Earlier reports suggested the destroyed classrooms were in a two-storey part of the building, but Peshawar police chief Mian Saeed later confirmed that classrooms on three floors had been brought down.
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There were about 30 pupils in the top class, 40 in the middle and 45 on the ground floor, he said.
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It appears that when the roof of the top-floor classroom collapsed, the falling rubble crashed through classrooms below, bringing their ceilings down too.
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Saeed said the entire structure, which had "substandard" roof slabs, was "overloaded" and beyond the limit of how much weight it could bear.
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The school is on a very narrow street, meaning it was difficult for rescue workers to reach the site and transport the injured to hospitals.
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Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital reported the deaths of 32 children and a teacher while Naseerullah Khan Babar Memorial Hospital reported one child dead.
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The police chief said the building was still "extremely dangerous" and urged people to move away.
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The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Faisal Karim Kundi, has ordered a safety audit of all schools in the province to "identify potential risks and ensure that immediate corrective measures are taken wherever necessary".
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"We cannot allow the safety of our children to be compromised," he said.
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Furious family members of deceased pupils accused the school of ignoring safety concerns.
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"Make an example of them, a lesson for all," Mohammad Zaman, a man who lost two nephews in the disaster, told Reuters news agency.
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The roof crashed through three classrooms and buried schoolchildren in debris, police say In June, fourteen children died after the roof of a private tuition centre near Lahore collapsed.
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And in August, 14 newborn babies were killed by a fire that ripped through a neonatal unit at a hospital in the capital, Islamabad, which an inquiry found lacked fire alarms and sprinklers. Pakistan has locked down Imran Khan's stronghold - but it could backfire No fire alarms or sprinklers at Pakistan hospital ward where 14 babies died, report finds
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