Attackers heard to say: 'Kill them'
"Taliban suicide attackers break into a Pakistan school and slaughter children hiding under benches, eventually killing 141 people in an hour-long siege." CNN
"Militants from the Pakistani Taliban
have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children,
the military say.
Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers
killed. A total of seven militants took part, according to the military. Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children
The attack is the deadliest ever by the Taliban in Pakistan.
There has been chaos outside hospital units to which casualties were taken, the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from Peshawar.
A Taliban spokesman told BBC Urdu that the school, which is run by the army, 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.
It appears the militants scaled walls to get into the school and set off a bomb at the start of the assault.
Children who escaped say the militants then went from one classroom to another, shooting indiscriminately.
One boy told reporters he had been with a group of 10 friends who tried to run away and hide. He was the only one to survive.
Others described seeing pupils lying dead in the corridors. One local woman said her friend's daughter had escaped because her clothing was covered in blood from those around her and she had lain pretending to be dead." BBC
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, ....murders,
Mark 7:21
