LAHORE: Fourteen children died after the roof of a tutoring center collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, rescue officials said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence investigation.
Punjab’s emergency service said rescuers found children and a 30-year-old female teacher under rubble of the private after-school facility.
The dead children were aged 5 to 16 with most below 9.
Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari said preliminary reports showed the tutoring center was unregistered and operating inside a privately owned residential building under a dilapidated roof.
Such centers are common across Pakistan, where children attend extra lessons outside regular school hours.
