FAISALABAD, April 3: At least four minor girl students’ were reportedly injured, two of them seriously, on Tuesday when a dilapidated portion of the boundary wall of the Government Girls’ Elementary School at Chak 22-GB collapsed.

Reports said the students were playing during the break when the 40-foot-long portion of the wall collapsed. As a result, Nazia, Ayesha, Sanam and Shareefan Bibi received multiple injuries and were rushed to Jaranwala tehsil headquarters hospital.

Two of the girls, Sanam and Shareefan, who had serious bone fractures, were later shifted to the Allied Hospital, while Nazia was discharged after being provided necessary treatment.

An education department officer, requesting anonymity, said the wall had been construed some 25 years ago at the time of school’s establishment.

The officer, however, kept mum to a query whether the authorities concerned had been informed about the condition of the wall.

Sources said the owners of some of the houses adjacent to the school had fortified their walls in a way which burdened the already dilapidated wall beyond its capacity and it resulted in its collapse.

The officer claimed that the injured were being given free medical treatment.

An inquiry into the matter has been ordered, the officer said.

The EDO concerned was not responding calls made at his phone.

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