UPPER DIR: One student was killed and four others suffered injuries when a boulder fell down on a primary school building in Maina area of Doog Dara here on Wednesday.

Locals said the boulder fell on one of the rooms of the government primary school, Khawar, when the workers blasted big rocks during work on an under-construction road. After the explosion, a boulder slipped and rolled down on the primary school.

The students were taking classes at the moment, a teacher and students said. As a result, one student was killed while four others were wounded, they said. The people responsible for the incident fled after the incident.

Soon after the incident, deputy commissioner directed the additional assistant commissioner, Sheringal, to reach the site.

The school staff said they had told the workers not to blast the rocks during the school timing, but they didn’t bother.

The injured students were shifted to hospital in Sheringal.

The deceased was identified as eight-year-old Hazrat Bilal of Maina. The injured were identified as Shabir Ahmad, 10, Jawad, 8, Inam, 9, and Bilal.

Police said they had registered FIR on complaint of the school’s head teacher under various sections of PPC against the accused.

Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2019