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Horrible Details of the Taliban’s School Attack Emerge

Horrible Details of the Taliban’s School Attack Emerge

Yesterday, Taliban gunmen ambushed a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 145 people, 126 of whom were children. The awful details are emerging today, as Pakistan enters a three-day mourning period. The Taliban has said that they targeted the school because they wanted to stop the students from ever joining the Pakistani army and targeting militants.

Surviving students recounted the horrors of gunmen running through the hallways, shouting “God is great!” as they sprayed bullets and shouted instructions to each other about where children were hiding. Eventually, Pakistani soldiers reached the school and cornered the Taliban militants, who were eventually killed. It’s unclear whether they were killed by the soldiers or took their own lives.

“Even the children are dying on the frontline in the war against terror,” said Khawaja Asif, Pakistan’s defense minister. “The smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry.” As the government begins to hunt down those who planned the attack, they lifted the country’s moratorium on the death penalty …

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