ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (Reuters) – At least 17 students, all of them below the age of 13, and one teacher were killed in a school roof collapse in Pakistan’s Peshawar city, a local hospital spokesperson said on Thursday.
The students and the teacher were brought dead to the Lady Reading Hospital along with more than a dozen people who were injured in the incident, hospital spokesperson Mohammad Asim said.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear.
(Reporting by Islamabad bureau, Writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by YP Rajesh)
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