Taliban terrorists overnight seized a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, slaughtering over 140 students and teachers.
141 people, mostly children 12 to 16 years old, are dead, and over 100 more injured after 300 to 400 members of the Taliban slaughtered them in a terror raid few can even imagine.
Shouting, “God is great,” the terrorists massacred them.
A CNN video from earlier today. The death toll numbers have risen since:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/12/16/newday-shubert-deadly-school-attack-pakistan-taliban.cnn.html
CNN reports a 14-year old student told them a Pakistani Taliban member said to another, “‘A lot of the children are under the benches. Kill them.'”
They were eventually met by Pakistani troops who pushed through the complex building by building, room by room. By 4 p.m., they’d confined the attackers to four buildings. A few hours later, all the militants — seven of them, according to [military spokesman Gen. Asim] Bajwa — were dead.
Still, the ordeal isn’t over.
Pakistani authorities spent Tuesday night inside the school in Peshawar, a city about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the country’s capital, Islamabad, looking for survivors, victims and improvised explosive devices planted to worsen the carnage.
The story continues on other fronts as well, such as the military’s continued offensive against militants in northwest Pakistan and in Peshawar hospitals where many young people are fighting for their lives.
Caution: this video is graphic:
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