About 400 Pakistani school children dead in quake

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – About 400 school children
were killed in northwestern Pakistan when a quake struck the
region on Saturday and their schools collapsed, police said.

“Three-hundred-and-fifty school children have been killed
in a school in Mansehra district and 50 were killed in another
school in the same district,” said provincial police chief
Riffat Pashar.

“The situation is very bad, the figure has gone to about
1,000 feared dead in North West Frontier province,” he told
Reuters.