SWABI: Three children were injured when a landslide struck the building of a government boys’ primary school in the Ghani Kot area in the mountainous Gadoon Amazai region here on Wednesday.

Residents said that the school building was also damaged by the landslide.

A resident, Saddam Jadoon, said that the morning assembly was in progress when the incident occurred.

Residents said that about 90 per cent of the children were outside the classrooms at the time of the incident, averting a major tragedy.

The injured children were rushed to the hospital.

After the incident, residents of Ghani Kot village and members of the Parent-Teacher Council visited the school and informed the education department and the deputy commissioner about the incident.

The officials ordered the closure of the school as rains lashed the area overnight and it was feared more landslides could occur.

The PTC members said that this was the second landslide to have struck the same school this year.

They asked the relevant authorities to remove the debris of the landslide from the area and inspect the school building for safety to avoid any loss of life in future.

Meanwhile, the body of Awais, who had drowned in the Indus River on Independence Day, was recovered here on Wednesday.

The deceased, hailing from Charsadda, was one of the six people who had drowned in the river. The body of a youngster, belonging to Mardan, is still untraced, while four were recovered earlier.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2026