The children were playing cricket during a break in the monsoon rains when they got caught in the landslide. Authorities have already issued alerts for more heavy rains, raising risks of fresh flooding.
Ednews informs via foreign media that at least 50 people in Pakistan have died from floods and landslides triggered by two weeks of monsoon rains, officials said on Friday.
It includes eight children killed by a landslide while playing cricket after monsoon rains on Thursday evening.
The incident occurred in the remote Shangla district in northern Pakistan; the children were aged between 12 and 15.
More than a dozen children had set up a cricket pitch close to sand rock when it collapsed and buried them, district emergency unit officer Sanaullah Khan said.
After hours of efforts, local rescue teams later joined by the Pakistan army pulled out eight bodies.
Another child was critically injured, while the rest were unharmed.