TOBA TEK SINGH: At least eight minor students of the Government Girls High School, Jahanian, Khanewal district, were seriously injured after they jumped from an upper-storey classroom in panic, as they mistook the vibration and sounds caused by road construction work for an earthquake.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, the girls were present in the classroom when they felt vibrations and heard a heavy sound caused by a road roller being used for the construction of a road adjacent to their school.

The minor girls mistook the noise for an earthquake, got panicked and rushed downstairs.

However, eight of them jumped down from the window of their first-floor classroom. As a result, they were seriously wounded, some of them suffering leg and arm fractures.

On being informed of the incident by the school management, a team of Rescue 1122 reached there and shifted the injured girls to the Jahanian THQ Hospital where doctors referred two of them to the Nishtar Hospital.

The injured girls were identified as Meraj Fatima (14), Nisha Naveed (11), Zulaikha Habib (13), Labia Kalshoom (14), Mahnoor Nazakat (13), Maneesha Shoukat (12), Faiza Ramzan (13) and Infal Tariq (13).

Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2024