34 children and a teacher killed in Pakistan school roof collapse

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.