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A nursery kid`s `roller-coaster ride`

By Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui 2015-10-27
LAHORE: `It was like a roller-coaster ride,` was the description by a nursery student of Monday`s earthquake, the first-ever for the four-year old.

The class was doing numeric when it happened.

The teacher got worried, askedeveryone tostandup, make a queue and move towards the school ground, Saim, the nursery kid, said.

`The whole school was moving like a roller-coaster, recalls Saim.

Later, in the school ground, Saim was informed by his elder sibling it was an earthquake.

`Earthqualce and rollercoaster are the same. But earthquake is not good, it is cruel. It kills children of my age. Roller-coaster gives enjoyment,` says Saim.