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Watch: Malala's attackers TTP kill at least 80 students in Peshawar

Hundred feared dead in school held by Taliban, says minister Shah Farman, when an unknown number of terrorists stormed into Peshawar's Army School.

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FP Staff|Dec 16, 2014, 15:15:02 IST

At least eighty innocent children were killed by  Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan operatives, the same terror group that attacked Pakistani student and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.[caption id="attachment_1852277" align="alignleft" width="380"]Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage on Tuesday. Reuters Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage on Tuesday. Reuters[/caption]According to Pakistani daily Dawn, the militants entered the Army school through an unmanned graveyard situated right behind the school campus.Eyewitnesses, including students, told reporters how the attack had unfolded in the school."We were studying and the fourth period was on when the firing began," said a student who had managed to escape from the school."When the firing began, our teachers initially told us it was a drill. But then we heard heavy firing and we realised that seven to eight people had launched an attack on the school. The principal then told the teachers to escort the children out of the back gate. There are around a thousand students still in the auditorium," said the child.Reportedly, one of the suicide bombers blew himself up outside the school auditorium, sparking fears that many have been killed inside the school premises held hostage by the TTP militants.Watch the video here:http://bitcast-a.v1.bom1.bitgravity.com/web18/fp-audio/2014/12/143709_geo-news-ibn-fp.mp4

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First Published:Dec 16, 2014, 15:01:18 IST
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