126 Children And Teens Dead After Taliban Attack On Pakistani School
Via NYDailyNews
At least 126 people — including dozens of children and teenagers — were slaughtered inside a Pakistan school when Taliban terrorists stormed the campus Tuesday.
Another 122 were injured in the shooting attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School and Degree College, the bloodiest in the country in years. Police said at least three explosions went off inside the school.
Most of the victims were between the ages of 12 and 16, Pervez Khattak, chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told CNN.
The brutal terrorists held scores of students and staffers hostage. One gunman burned a teacher alive in front of a class full of kids, a military source told NBC News.
“They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch,” the source said.The Taliban took credit for the horrific attack and said it sent in six gunmen wearing suicide vests on a mission to kill the school’s older students. Police have not confirmed the number of gunmen.
A Pakistan military spokesman said six terrorists died inside the school and confirmed the siege is almost over after hours of fighting. Pakistani security killed two and the third blew himself up, witnesses and police said. It’s unclear how the other three died.
Jesus…
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel laureate who was just 14 years old when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head while she rode on a school bus, condemned the attack Tuesday.
“I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold blooded act of terror in Peshawar that is unfolding before us,” she said in a statement. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this.”
The attack began Tuesday morning, with the gunmen entering the school — which has students in grades 1-10 — and shooting at random, said police officer Javed Khan.
Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and exchanged fire with the gunmen, he said. It was not immediately clear whether some or all of the children were killed by the gunmen or in the ensuing battle with Pakistani security forces.
We’ve had some harrowing school shootings here in America, but nothing like this. Cotdamn. R.I.P to those poor children, get well to those injured.
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At least 126 people — including dozens of children and teenagers — were slaughtered inside a Pakistan school when Taliban terrorists stormed the campus Tuesday.
Another 122 were injured in the shooting attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School and Degree College, the bloodiest in the country in years. Police said at least three explosions went off inside the school.
Most of the victims were between the ages of 12 and 16, Pervez Khattak, chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told CNN.
The brutal terrorists held scores of students and staffers hostage. One gunman burned a teacher alive in front of a class full of kids, a military source told NBC News.
“They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch,” the source said.The Taliban took credit for the horrific attack and said it sent in six gunmen wearing suicide vests on a mission to kill the school’s older students. Police have not confirmed the number of gunmen.
A Pakistan military spokesman said six terrorists died inside the school and confirmed the siege is almost over after hours of fighting. Pakistani security killed two and the third blew himself up, witnesses and police said. It’s unclear how the other three died.
Jesus…
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel laureate who was just 14 years old when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head while she rode on a school bus, condemned the attack Tuesday.
“I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold blooded act of terror in Peshawar that is unfolding before us,” she said in a statement. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this.”
The attack began Tuesday morning, with the gunmen entering the school — which has students in grades 1-10 — and shooting at random, said police officer Javed Khan.
Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and exchanged fire with the gunmen, he said. It was not immediately clear whether some or all of the children were killed by the gunmen or in the ensuing battle with Pakistani security forces.
We’ve had some harrowing school shootings here in America, but nothing like this. Cotdamn. R.I.P to those poor children, get well to those injured.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/1078921/elsewhere-in-the-world-126-children-and-teens-dead-after-taliban-attack-on-pakistani-army-school-43081/#sthash.7NQLeCq1.dpuf
