The Roof of a Tutoring Center in Pakistan Collapses, Killing at Least 14 Children and Injuring 8 Others, Police Say
- On Tuesday, a roof collapse at a tutoring center in Lahore's Kahna area killed at least 14 children, with eight others injured among over 30 students present inside the facility.
- The aging building housed an unfinished second floor where construction work continued using poor-quality materials, causing the roof to fail suddenly and trap young children in classrooms below.
- Rescue 1122 spokesperson Farooq Ahmed told Dawn News that "the children are very young in age, and there were two rooms in use. The ceilings collapsed and trapped the children." Five injured children faced critical conditions; two were discharged while four remain hospitalized.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed authorities to provide injured children with "every possible medical aid," while Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz ordered police to investigate criminal responsibility as authorities arrested the building owner and contractor.
- Building collapses remain endemic across Pakistan, a South Asian nation of more than 240 million where safety regulations are frequently ignored to reduce costs, mirroring last year's deadly Karachi collapse in Lyari that killed 27 people.
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Mourners attend funerals for 14 Pakistani children killed in tutoring
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Mourners gathered Wednesday in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore to bury 14 schoolchildren who were killed when the roof of a tutoring center collapsed on Tuesday. Police are investigating whether negligence during ongoing construction work caused the collapse that left another eight children injured and hospitalized in stable condition. Residents and preliminary police findings indicate the tutoring center was operating …
Fourteen children died in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore when the roof of a private tutoring institute collapsed. The Punjab provincial disaster management department said the children and a 30-year-old teacher were also killed in the incident. The children were aged between five and 16, most of them under nine. Workers were repairing tiles on the building when the roof collapsed, a witness told AFP. Authorities are also investigating the …
Roof collapse at Pakistan tutoring centre kills 14 children, injures five
LAHORE, July 1 — A roof collapse at a tutoring centre in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 14 children and injured five yesterday, officials said.Workers had been repairing tiles on the decrepit building when the roof gave way and crushed the youngsters, a witness told AFP.Grieving relatives wept as they gathered around the bodies of the young victims, shrouded in white sheets, AFP observed.“A roof collapse in Basti Eid Gah, K…
Tutoring centre roof collapses killing 14 children in Pakistan
NewsFeedAt least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan. Officials said the unregistered centre was operating inside a residential building with an unsafe roof.Published On 1 Jul 20261 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source The post Tutoring centre roof collapses killing 14 childr…
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AlKhaleej TodayRoof collapse kills 14 children at Pakistan tuition center
LAHORE — Fourteen children died after the roof of a tuition center collapsed in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, officials said.Punjab province's emergency service said rescuers pulled children under the age of 10 and a 30-year-old female teacher from the rubble of the after-school facility.Another five people are believed to have been injured.Authorities launched an investigation into the collapse in the Kahna suburb of Lahore, and two …
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