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BBCAt least 18 pupils and a teacher have been killed after a school roof collapsed in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities have told the BBC.
Forty others are injured, with some believed to be in a critical condition.
Several children are feared trapped under the rubble after the collapse, which occurred on Thursday morning during lessons.
All of the pupils who died were under 13, according to Mohammad Asim, spokesperson for Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital.
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