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Mourners attend funerals for 14 Pakistani children killed in tutoring center roof collapse
Authorities said the unregistered centre was in an ageing residential building and that poor construction and roof work likely caused the collapse.
- 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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Punjab police have booked five people after a Lahore tuition centre roof collapse killed 14 children and injured 20. The case has reignited concern over unsafe construction and oversight failures in Pakistan.
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