A child was killed, and four people were injured on Wednesday when the roof of a school collapsed in Lahore’s Baghbanpura area, days after a similar tragedy in Kahna claimed 14 lives.

Police detained six female teachers and the vice principal of the school and launched an investigation into the incident.

The roof collapsed suddenly during construction work being carried out to expand the building. A summer camp was underway at the school at the time, with children present on the premises.

The deceased child was identified as Abubakar. His body and the four injured were shifted to Services Hospital.

Hospital officials named the injured as Nadeem, 35, Shakeel, 38, Faiz, 32, and Nadeem, 42, adding that all four were out of danger.

A case was registered on the complaint of the Education Authority against the school administration and the contractor.

Assistant Education Officers Bilal Kazmi and Tahira Nazeer were suspended for failing to act against illegal summer camps.

Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz expressed grief over the child’s death and condoled with the bereaved family.

She praised rescue officials for safely pulling more than 10 children from the debris and ordered that the rescue operation be expedited and that all affected individuals receive immediate medical care.

The Punjab government also decided to conduct an immediate safety audit of school buildings in densely populated areas across the province.

It sought an urgent report from the Commissioner Lahore and the Director General of Rescue 1122 on the Baghbanpura incident.

The collapse comes days after a tuition centre roof caved in in Lahore’s Kahna area on June 30, killing 14 children.

Police said construction work was underway on the upper floor of the building while children were present on the ground floor.

Three people, including the house owner Rehan, his brother Muhammad Faizan and a mason identified as Umair, were detained after that incident.

Following the Kahna tragedy, the district administration had decided to shut down all illegal tuition centres in the city and impose heavy fines on those using residential properties for commercial purposes.