6 children die in school collapse in India

Six children were killed yesterday when the roof of their school collapsed in a village in northern India, police said. The victims of the accident, at the privately run school in Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh, were around 10 years of age, police said. “There were 27 students in the school and six of them were brought out dead from the rubble,” Bijnor police chief Nitin Tiwary said. Rescuers freed the remaining students who suffered cuts and bruises from the falling roof, Tiwary said by telephone. However, the district administration added that 13 students are seriously injured and have been rushed to district hospital. The parents have reached the hospital. from gulf times.