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Pakistani troops have been helping evacuate children from the school

 

At least 126 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

All six of the militants who entered the building are said to have been killed, at least one of them in a suicide blast.
However, the army has not declared the operation over. Most of the 500 students have been evacuated.
The attack is being seen as one of the worst so far in Pakistan.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Karachi says the militants appear to have been intent on killing as many students as possible - rather than taking hostages, as initially thought.
Thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in militant violence in recent years - but the latest attack has caused unprecedented shock.
A spokesman for the militants told BBC Urdu that the school had been targeted 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.

 

  Local hospitals have been treating the injured

Relatives of the injured have been waiting for news from the school

Many of the casualties at the Army Public School were reportedly caused by the suicide blast. More than 100 of the dead were children, a local official told Reuters news agency.
Irshadah Bibi, a woman who lost her 12-year-old son, was seen beating her face in grief, throwing herself against an ambulance.
"O God, why did you snatch away my son?" AFP news agency quotes her as saying.
The attack started at 10:00 local time (05:00 GMT). Mudassir Awan, a worker at the school, said he had seen six people scaling its walls.
"We thought it must be the children playing some game," he told Reuters news agency. "But then we saw a lot of firearms with them.
"As soon as the firing started, we ran to our classrooms," he said. "They were entering every class and they were killing the children."
Eyewitnesses told Geo TV station that the attackers had entered the school auditorium, where a military team was conducting first-aid training for students.
Locals reported hearing the screams of students and teachers. The dead are said to also include teachers and a paramilitary soldier.
Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces hunted down the militants.
At least 126 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

All six of the militants who entered the building are said to have been killed, at least one of them in a suicide blast.
However, the army has not declared the operation over. Most of the 500 students have been evacuated.
The attack is being seen as one of the worst so far in Pakistan.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Karachi says the militants appear to have been intent on killing as many students as possible - rather than taking hostages, as initially thought.
Thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in militant violence in recent years - but the latest attack has caused unprecedented shock.
A spokesman for the militants told BBC Urdu that the school had been targeted 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.

Pakistani troops have been helping evacuate children from the school

Local hospitals have been treating the injured

Relatives of the injured have been waiting for news from the school

Many of the casualties at the Army Public School were reportedly caused by the suicide blast. More than 100 of the dead were children, a local official told Reuters news agency.
Irshadah Bibi, a woman who lost her 12-year-old son, was seen beating her face in grief, throwing herself against an ambulance.
"O God, why did you snatch away my son?" AFP news agency quotes her as saying.
The attack started at 10:00 local time (05:00 GMT). Mudassir Awan, a worker at the school, said he had seen six people scaling its walls.
"We thought it must be the children playing some game," he told Reuters news agency. "But then we saw a lot of firearms with them.
"As soon as the firing started, we ran to our classrooms," he said. "They were entering every class and they were killing the children."
Eyewitnesses told Geo TV station that the attackers had entered the school auditorium, where a military team was conducting first-aid training for students.
Locals reported hearing the screams of students and teachers. The dead are said to also include teachers and a paramilitary soldier.
Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces hunted down the militants.