In a locality tucked into the outskirts of the very constituency Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif represents, NA-123, fourteen children — none older than 12 — were buried this week not by fate, but by decades of official neglect.
It happened in the late afternoon. A modest home, doubling as a tuition centre, was hosting more than 25 children for their daily lessons when the roof above them gave way. Witnesses say renovation work was underway on the upper floor — the husband of the teacher who ran the centre was reinforcing the roof ahead of the monsoon season. The structure, weak and unable to bear the additional load, collapsed onto the children below.
By the time rescue teams and neighbours cleared the rubble, 14 children were dead and eight more injured, several critically. Some were rushed first to the nearby Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, then transferred to Lahore General Hospital as authorities scrambled to respond.
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