The 141 has increased the number of fatalities Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, the vast majority of those killed were children – Pakistani army spokesman Asim Bajwa. Pakistani security forces operation reflection school ended at the hands of the Taliban commandos.
At the press conference said that the bombing killed 132 students and nine employees of the school. Bajwa said that seven terrorists carried out the attack, each of whom was carrying explosives in the so-called. Shahid waist.
Pakistani armed forces spokesman said that the attackers did not have any demands and immediately after the entrance to the school started shooting. Therefore, everything indicates that the target of the assassination was to intimidate children – rated. All the attackers were killed in security operations.
– Their sole purpose, it seems, was to kill these innocent children. That’s what they did – the army spokesman said. Wounds in the attack ended up with the 121 students and three employees of the school – Bajwa said.
The building was searched for explosives and protected.
The operation ended after nine hours of fighting. Nine were killed in the Taliban, that is, all the attackers, and seven were injured military – army source said. Previously reported that the attackers were six.
The last published balance sheet of the victims says at least 130 dead, including approx. 100 children, and more than 120 injured.
Agencies reserve that is not is not clear whether all the children who have died were killed by attackers, or some of them died as a result of the operation of the security forces trying to regain control of the building. In a public school in Peshawar Pakistani children learn the military.
As reported in the morning for school burst into several armed attackers who fired indiscriminately to encounter people. In place of military commandos arrived quickly. We could hear the sounds of gunfire and several explosions – police said.
It is estimated that at the time of the attack on the building, there were approx. 500 students, mostly between the ages of 10 to 20 years, and teachers. There were then reports that the Taliban took hundreds of hostages. Army transferred later in a statement that many hostages were evacuated but not reported their number.
The head of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial authorities, whose capital is Peshawar, reported that approx. H. 14.30 local time the three attackers were killed, including the bomber, who detonated a body strapped to an explosive device.
Taliban spokesman Mohammed Khurasani informed the media that the Taliban take responsibility for the attack, carried out by six suicide bombers in revenge be undertaken by the military offensive in North Waziristan. The school was chosen deliberately because of attacking the authority “of our families and women” – he said. – We want to feel the pain – he added.
The attack on the school condemned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who reported that he is on his way to Peshawar. – I can not stay in Islamabad. This is a national tragedy unleashed by barbarians. It was my children – said in a statement.
Statement on the attack sent a Malala Yousafzai – the Pakistani teenager won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for the rights of children and women’s right to education, which survived the bombing Taliban for his life for proclaimed beliefs.
– My heart bleeds at the thought of the senseless and ruthless act of terror in Peshawar (…). Innocent students should not experience anything like it – said, condemning “this horrible and cowardly act.” – Along with millions of people around the world mourn the children, my brothers and sisters, but never bow “- she noted.
This is one of the most bloody attacks carried out by militants linked to Al-Qaeda movement Tahreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which since 2007, fighting with the government in Islamabad.
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