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School roof collapses, killing at least 34

“A school roof has collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. At least 33 pupils and a teacher were killed” and “more than a dozen were injured.” Announcing the arrest of the school’s owner, city police chief Mian Saeed promised a thorough inquiry into “whether there were any violations of building codes.”

In July, at least 14 children were killed in a roof collapse in a tutoring center in Pakistan’s second largest city, Lahore, which has over 14 million people.

At least a thousand people died in this year’s military conflict between Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.  Over 115,000 Afghan civilians have been displaced by the cross-border strikes and fighting.

A suicide bomber killed 31 people in a mosque in Pakistan’s capital this year.

The Iran war sent many homes and businesses in Pakistan into darkness, by leading to blackouts and increasing energy prices.

On the bright side, sexual harassment has diminished in Pakistan as sanitation has improved.

Dozens of people were killed in an earthquake in Northern Afghanistan in November.

Last August, an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed over 1,000 people.

LU Staff

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