KARACHI, Sept 11: Four children were killed when a wall of an old school building on the Manora island collapsed on Thursday.

Witnesses said that the four students of the Federal Government Public School, who were cousins, were having snacks during recess in the shade of the wall of the dilapidated building which collapsed killing all of them.

A large number of local people gathered at the place and retrieved the bodies of nine-year-old Arbab, six-year-old Adnan, six-year-old Taimur and five-year-old Fardeen Khan.

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