Our Urdu correspondent reports from the scene in Peshawar, north west Pakistan, where emergency services have been responding to the incident.
More than 30 pupils and a teacher have been killed after a school roof collapsed in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to hospital officials. More than a dozen others are injured, with some in a critical condition. Several children are feared to be trapped under the rubble.
BBC Urdu's Azizullah Khan reports from Peshawar.
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