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Taliban attack in Peshawar: 100 killed including 80 children

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At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say.

 

Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces surrounded the area.

 

The army says most of the school's 500 students have been evacuated. It is not clear how many are being held hostage.

 

A Taliban spokesman says the assault is in response to army operations.

 

Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to have died in a recent military offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.

 

A school worker and a student interviewed by the local Geo TV station said the attackers had entered the Army Public School's auditorium, where a military team was conducting first-aid training for students.


Mudassir Awan, a worker at the school, said he saw six or seven attackers.

 

"As soon as the firing started, we ran to our classrooms," he said. "They were entering every class and they were killing the children."

 

Locals said they also said they heard screams of students and teachers. It's unclear excatly how Taliban militants got into the military-run facility.

 

Ambulances have been carrying the injured to a nearby hospital. A helicopter is also in the area.

 

The dead are said to include teachers, as well as a paramilitary soldier.

 

The attack started at 10 am local time. (BBC)

 

 

 


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  • NoExtreminism Tuesday, 16 December 2014 04:05 PM

    Fighting in the sake of religion. Something is really wrong in this community.

    Nihal Amarasekera Tuesday, 16 December 2014 04:24 PM

    Barbarians, reminds of the LTTE days.

    Prometheus Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:01 PM

    despicable beyond comprehension!

    aj Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:25 PM

    Sick of Islam

    bmnwsb Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:36 PM

    Not only racism - STOP terrorism....!!!!

    Malin Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:42 PM

    This has nothing to do with Islam , these are terrorist who have hijacked islam to quench their blood thirst. Quran says ,"killing any innocent human is killing the humanity and saving any human life is saving humanity"

    shuffy Tuesday, 16 December 2014 07:49 PM

    Taliban the cowards using their families as human shields during fighting. why they cannot come to battlefield and fight with the soldiers rather than hiding behind these innocent children. NAWAZ sheriff should learn how LTTE was eliminated from this soil first.

    MSR Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:54 AM

    Sick of Thaleiban Muslims.


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