Seventeen students, one teacher killed in school roof collapse in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 — 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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