About 400 Pakistani school children dead in quake
Posted on: Saturday, 8 October 2005, 11:39 CDT
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.
Source: REUTERS
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