{"id":803203,"date":"2026-10-15T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803203\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:30:18","slug":"pakistan-school-roof-collapse-at-least-28-killed-as-rescuers-search-for-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803203\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan school roof collapse: At least 28 killed as rescuers search for survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue workers face difficulties in reaching site of collapsed roofpublished at 09:01 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:01 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Bilal Ahmed<br \/>Reporting from Peshawar<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rescuers next to a pile of rubble\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3de2d3cb-690b-4c76-8ffb-ec72bb82fd83.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The school is in a narrow street where only one vehicle can<br \/>\npass at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result, rescue workers have faced difficulties in<br \/>\nreaching the site and transporting the injured to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One man, Sohail, tells the BBC: &#8220;My sister called me<br \/>\naround 09:30 and said, &#8216;Brother, come quickly. The school&#8217;s young children are<br \/>\ntrapped under the collapsed roof.&#8217; I, along with other residents of the area,<br \/>\nrushed to the scene and tried to pull them out using shovels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Bilal Faizi, a rescue official in Peshawar, said:<br \/>\n&#8220;The rescue control room received a call at 8:48am reporting that the roof<br \/>\nof the school had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When our teams arrived, they found that the roof of<br \/>\none section of the building had collapsed onto another. The children in the<br \/>\naffected classroom were trapped under the debris.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescue workers face difficulties in reaching site of collapsed roofpublished at 09:01 BST 09:01 BST Bilal AhmedReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-803203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}