135 children killed Pakistani Taliban militants attacked at army school survivors treated in hospitals. Militants from the Pakistani Taliban attacked an army-run school.
In Peshawar, leaving at least 135 people dead, most of them children.
All six attackers are said by officials to have been killed but the security forces are still checking for bombs they may have left.
Scores of survivors treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children.
The attack is the deadliest ever by the Taliban in Pakistan.
The militants appear to have been intent on killing as many students as possible – rather than taking hostages, as initially thought.
Thousands of Pakistanis killed in militant violence in recent years – but the latest attack has caused unprecedented shock.
135 children killed Pakistani Taliban militants attacked at army school survivors treated in hospitals.
A Taliban spokesman told BBC Urdu that the school targeted in response to army operations.
135 children killed Pakistani Taliban militants attacked at army school survivors treated in hospitals.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters thought to have died in a recent military offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.
Analysis.
This brutal attack may well be a watershed for a country long accused by the world of treating terrorists as strategic assets.
Pakistan’s policy-makers struggling to come to grips with various shades of militants often cited a “lack of consensus.
“And “large pockets of sympathy” for religious militants as a major stumbling-block.
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’s lawless tribal belt, the political response was lukewarm at best.
Pakistani Taliban militants attacked at army school 135 children killed.
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.
More than 100 of the dead are children, a local official told Reuters news agency, although other sources say the number may be slightly smaller.
The attack started at 10:00 local time (05:00 GMT). Mudassir Awan, a worker at the school, said he had seen six people scaling its walls.
