Kallar Kahar tragedy: School to reopen from Monday

DCO Faisalabad meets parents of accident victims to discuss future of Millat Grammar School and its students.

FAISALABAD: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Faisalabad Nasim Sadiq said on Saturday that the Millat Grammar School has been unsealed and it will reopen from Monday, Express 24/7 reported.

The DCO held a meeting with parents of the Kallar Kahar bus accident victims today and discussed the future of the school and its students.

As reported earlier, an over-loaded 72-seater bus, carrying 107 passengers overturned on the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway on September 26.

The passenger bus skidded at the accident-prone Kallar Kahar area. The bus was carrying 101 students and five staff members, who were on their way back from a school trip to Kallar Kahar and Khewra Salt Mines, widely-known as tourist destinations.

DCO Sadiq had asked the parents if they wanted the school closed permanently and the students shifted to other institutes or if they wanted the city district government to take over it.

The parents said that the school should not shutdown, but they were not ready to let their children study in the same building as it was in poor condition. They demanded that the students be taught in a newly constructed college situated nearby.

The district government has decided to temporarily let the students study in the same building.