ISLAMABAD – At least 34 schoolchildren and a female teacher were killed on Thursday when the roof of a school collapsed during morning classes in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police and rescue officials said.
As panicked parents and relatives thronged the school site to search for ?their loved ones, rescue workers spent hours pulling children from the rubble of the privately run Al-Khair Education Center.
Most ?of the ?victims were under the age of 13 and from low-income households.
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