{"id":611,"date":"2026-10-15T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:02:03","slug":"school-roof-crushed-34-kids-in-peshawar-owner-arrested-police-call-it-gross-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL ROOF CRUSHED 34 KIDS IN PESHAWAR! | Owner arrested; police call it gross negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A private school roof in northwestern Pakistan just became a crime scene. On Thursday morning in Peshawar\u2019s Dir Colony, the roof at Al-Khair Education Centre gave way \u2014 and at least <strong>34 children<\/strong> and a teacher never made it out.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital and police tallies reported by AP, BBC, and local outlets put most of the dead under age 13. Lady Reading Hospital took in dozens of injured. Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Afaq Wazir said everyone trapped under the debris had been pulled out by the end of the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>City police chief Mian Saeed called it <strong>\u201cgross negligence\u201d<\/strong> and warned the building remains extremely dangerous, with risk of further collapse. Preliminary findings: a structurally weak, poorly built three-storey school squeezed into a narrow, congested lane. The owner \u2014 running the place as an education trust \u2014 was arrested. Substandard materials are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews got the call around 08:48 local time. Residents rushed in with shovels. Upper-floor classrooms came down onto rooms below. Provincial education officials ordered a Private Schools Regulatory Authority report by Friday. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered relief sped up and accountability pursued.<\/p>\n<p>Kids showed up for class. A roof failed. That is not an act of God \u2014 that is someone who should have been inspected before the rubble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pakistan-school-roof-collapse-peshawar-c0be44527f22b43ea16a1f10d4b43e54\">AP \u2014 Peshawar school roof collapse<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/crvgynp501y3t\">BBC \u2014 Pakistan school roof collapse live<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/students-teacher-killed-in-school-roof-collapse-in-pakistan-peshwar\/article71586942.ece\">The Hindu \u2014 34 children, teacher killed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner arrested; police call it gross negligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-peshawar-school-1015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}