Devastated families mourn children killed by Pakistan school roof collapse

Arab News · 16‏/10‏/2026، 11:29:41 م

ISLAMABAD: When 7-year-old Rumaisa Khan set off for school on Thursday she was wearing a brand-new pair of shoes her father had just bought for her. Within hours she was dead, one of 34 students killed when the roof of her school collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. “I had got her a pair of new shoes which she wore that day after gifting the old one to a cousin,” her father, garment shop owner Ismail Khan, said on Friday as the community mourned the victims of the tragedy