A minimum of 10 kids have been killed when a ship carrying non secular faculty college students capsized in northwest Pakistan.
About eight college students have been nonetheless lacking whereas seven injured had been taken to hospital, in response to officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province the place the accident occurred.
Kohat’s district commissioner Mahmood Aslam stated about 50 college students from a neighborhood non secular faculty had gathered close to Tanda lake for a picnic on Sunday.
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Twenty-five had ventured out on the water, which was closed by authorities for leisure journeys, on a ship that capsized, he stated.
The pupils who had died have been aged between seven and 12 years previous, in response to a listing shared with Reuters by the commissioner.
He stated Pakistani army divers have been serving to with the rescue and restoration efforts.
Video footage by native broadcasters and on social media confirmed rescuers within the water.
The accident got here the identical day as a bus accident in southern Pakistan that killed greater than 40 individuals.
