Pakistan Taliban: Peshawar
Militants
from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar
Officials
say the attack in the north-western city is over, with all the attackers
killed. Seven militants took part in all, according to the army.
Scores
of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news
of their children.
The
attack - the Taliban's deadliest in Pakistan
Describing the attack from
his hospital bed to the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil, Shahrukh
Khan, 17, said a gunman had entered his classroom and opened fire at random.
As
he hid under a desk, he saw his friends being shot, one in the head and one in
the chest. Two teachers were also killed.
A Taliban spokesman told BBC Urdu that the
school, which is run by the army, had been targeted in response to military
operations.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to
have died in a recent offensive in North Waziristan
and the nearby Khyber area.
US President Barack Obama said terrorists
had "once again shown their depravity" while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it
was "an act of horror and rank cowardice".
Analysis: Aamer
Ahmed Khan, BBC News
This brutal attack may well be a watershed for a country
long accused by the world of treating terrorists as strategic assets.
That is probably why, when army chief Gen
Raheel Sharif launched what he called an indiscriminate operation earlier in
the year against militant groups in Pakistan
We will get them, was his message, be they
Pakistani Taliban, Punjabi Taliban, al-Qaeda and affiliates, or most importantly, the dreaded
Haqqani network. But the country's political leadership chose to remain largely
silent. This is very likely to change now.
Late on Tuesday, military spokesman Asim
Bajwa told reporters in Peshawar
All seven of the attackers wore suicide
bomb vests, he said. Scores of people were also injured.
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.
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Structure of the
Lead
Who- Militants from the Pakistani Taliban and the students
When- 16 December 2014
What- It attacked people who
stay in the school randomly.
Why-
How- It caused
141 people died in this attack.
Keywords
1.
depravity: (N)墮落
How can those brutal people do such kind of thing!
回覆刪除The victims were just kids!!
Education is not wrong!
Just for Taliban benefits, students should be sacrificed, that's not right!
The attackers are too cruel to kill lots of children only for avenge.
回覆刪除Those kids are so young that they have pretty wonderful future, however, they became the sacrificed in the unfair country.
Hope they could have another better lives after they died and there won't be any cruel things occurred in the future.
I can't accept the attackers' deeds. They should know that every lives are precious first.
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