No casualties had been reported on Monday morning after a college within the Sirikot village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Haripur district caught fireplace, DawnNewsTV reported.
In accordance with Daybreak.com’s correspondent within the space, greater than 1,000 feminine college students had been contained in the Authorities Women’ Excessive Secondary College Sirikot when the fireplace began.
Hearth and rescue officers, who had reached there with a hearth brigade automobile, had put out the fireplace after it had raged on for greater than two hours, the correspondent mentioned.
Autos of the Haripur and Ghazi Tehsil Municipal Administrations (TMAs) had been additionally referred to as to the positioning, which had been but to reach, he added.
Whereas there was no official assertion on the incident’s trigger, Rashid, the daddy of a scholar there, mentioned his daughter was contained in the classroom the place the fireplace began and that it had begun with sparks coming from the roof, hinting at a brief circuit as a attainable trigger.
Daybreak.com’s correspondent mentioned the fireplace rapidly unfold via the constructing, gutting the constructing, the furnishings and paper data inside the college.
Cell phone movies from the positioning confirmed big plumes of smoke billowing out of the college premises and particles from burnt roofs falling as flames raged inside. Dozens of locals may be seen gathered outdoors the college.
A number of fireplace incidents have taken place in Haripur prior to now few years.
In December, a lady was killed whereas eight animals perished when a cattle pen caught fire in Haripur’s Khanpur tehsil.
The summer time of 2022 noticed huge wildfires in Haripur and three other KP districts, destroying lots of of acres of forestland.
In October of the identical 12 months, a hearth destroyed data and furnishings within the workplace of Pak-Austria Institute of Utilized Sciences and Expertise in Haripur’s Mang space.
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