5 school kids hurt in roof collapse
Five kids were injured as the roof of a primary school collapsed in Barguna's Amtali upazila yesterday.
Injured Usmita, Marium and Lamia, students of Class III, and Obaidul and Emon, students of Class V of Patakata Nurul Haq Government Primary School, took treatment at a local hospital.
Academic activities of the school have been shifted to nearby Nurul Haq Junior High School after the incident, said Upazila Primary Education Officer Md Mojibur Rahman.
The school kids sustained injuries around 12:00 noon when a portion of the roof of the school building collapsed during tiffin period, said Headmaster Bilkis Nahar.
At the time, a number of students and teachers were outside of the classrooms, he said.
The school building was built in 1998 and it became unfit for use due to lack of renovation, the headmaster said, adding that plaster from the roof and walls had fallen earlier.
They will inform the higher authorities about the matter, said the education officer.
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