The Associated Press was allowed to view the devastation inside a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, where a Taliban attack killed 142 people, mostly children, on Tuesday. (Dec. 17)
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AP Views Devastation Inside Pakistan School
PAKISTAN: 134 Students Shot Dead At Military School During Exams; 126 Injured
Update: December 15, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 marks the one year anniversary of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre when seven gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) carried out a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The militants, all of whom were foreign nationals, included one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans. They entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children, killing 141 people, including 132 schoolchildren, ranging between eight and eighteen years of age. A rescue operation was launched by the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group (SSG) special forces, who killed all seven terrorists and rescued 960 people. On 02 December, 2015 Pakistan hung four militants involved in the Peshawar massacre.
This was the deadliest terrorist attack ever to occur in Pakistan, surpassing the 2007 Karachi bombing.
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