{"id":24087,"date":"2026-10-15T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24087"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:36:16","slug":"29-children-and-a-female-teacher-killed-as-private-school-roof-collapses-in-peshawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24087","title":{"rendered":"29 Children and a Female Teacher Killed as Private School Roof Collapses in Peshawar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Twenty-nine children and a female teacher were killed when the roof of a three-storey private school collapsed in Peshawar, leaving dozens of children injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to rescue officials, the incident occurred in Dir Colony, where several children were injured after becoming trapped beneath the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital authorities said 28 bodies had been brought to Lady Reading Hospital and two to Naseerullah Babar Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue officials said 25 injured children had been taken to hospital. The children who died were between seven and 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Peshawar Capital City Police Officer Mian Saeed said more than 40 people had been injured and the private school\u2019s owner had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the school\u2019s principal had also been taken into custody. An inquiry was underway to establish when the institution was founded. They added that the incident was being investigated and an FIR was being registered.<\/p>\n<p>The district administration said the school building had three storeys. An inquiry committee had been formed to determine the causes of the roof collapse.<\/p>\n<p>According to rescue officials, debris removal was continuing, while everyone trapped beneath the rubble had been pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi expressed grief over the incident and sought a report from the relevant authorities. He also ordered that the injured children receive the best possible medical care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine children and a female teacher were killed when the roof of a three-storey private school collapsed in Peshawar, leaving dozens of children injured. According to rescue officials, the incident occurred in Dir Colony, where several children were injured after becoming trapped beneath the rubble. Hospital authorities said 28 bodies had been brought to Lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13819,1978,13821,218,11606,13820],"class_list":["post-24087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-dir-colony","tag-faisal-karim-kundi","tag-lady-reading-hospital","tag-peshawar","tag-rescue","tag-school-roof-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24089,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions\/24089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}