The whole country alongside many people around the world mourned as the Peshawar buried 142 people including 132 students after the terror outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban brutality killed children and staffs at a military school in the northwest of Pakistan yesterday. Over 120 students and 3 staff members were injured and still undergoing treatment.
The mass funerals took place on Wednesday amidst mass prayers held across the nation.
Nine Taliban gunmen with explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the school in the morning yesterday and started shooting at the students and teachers. Some of the female teachers were burned alive in front of students.
The Islamist militant group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said the attack was revenge for a military action against them in the northwest.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pledged to take action against this barbaric attack.
Calling it a “national tragedy unleashed by savages”, Mr Sharif said, “We must not forget these scenes…The way they left bullet holes in the bodies of innocent kids, the way they tore apart their faces with bullets.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered India’s “deepest condolences” and the Indian parliament observed a minute’s silence in their honour, along with Indian schools across the states observed 2 minute silence in honouring the victims.
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