“At
least 130 people, most of them students as young as 12, have been
killed and at least 122 others injured in a Taliban seizure of a
military-run school in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, according to
provincial authorities.”
“Some
500 students and teachers were in the Army Public School on Warsak
Road at the time of the attack. Pakistan’s military said most of
the civilians escaped, but some had been taken hostage by the
assailants.”
“According
to media reports, as many as 10 militants dressed in Pakistani
military uniforms entered the school compound on Tuesday at around
noon. They torched a car at the site and proceeded with a raid on the
facility.”
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