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Carnage in Pak school
In the bloodiest terror attack in Pakistan in years, 141 people, mostly children, were on Tuesday killed by heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers who stormed an army-run school here and took several hostages. Chief military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa told a news conference that 132 of the dead were children and another nine were staff members.
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Peshawar: In the bloodiest terror attack in Pakistan in years, 141 people, mostly children, were on Tuesday killed by heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers who stormed an army-run school here and took several hostages. Chief military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa told a news conference that 132 of the dead were children and another nine were staff members. A total of 130 people - 118 students, three staffers, seven SSG soldiers and two officers - were injured, he said.
A group of eightArabic-speaking attackers, wearing para- military Frontier Corps uniforms, entered the Army Public School on Warsak Road around 10.30 am (local time) and started the massacre of innocents, spraying bullets indiscriminately, going from classroom-to-classroom.
They also took several hostages using them as human shield. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. Its spokesman claimed six gunmen were involved and that the attack was a revenge for the military's operation against militants in the North Waziristan tribal area close to Peshawar. "We want them to feel our pain," he said.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the worst in recent years. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif termed it a "national tragedy" and chaired a security meeting in Peshawar where he was briefed about the attack and operation. Sharif reiterated that military operation 'Zarb-e-azab' to flush out terrorists from the country's tribal belt will continue. "It's a sheer act of cowardice...The country should unite to combat terrorism," he added.
