According to BBC report, something that started as a normal school day...was later turned into a massacre with corpse everywhere in the school premises''and the most painful aspect of it was that,they were innocent children who are supposed to be the leaders of tomorrow....how sad!!!
In the news,we're told that Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, of which 132 of them were children!..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.So far,
Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their missing children
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The attack according to analyst was Taliban's deadliest in Pakistan -and has been widely condemned.
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".
Troops helped evacuate children from the school
Analyst Aamer Ahmed Khan, BBC News revealed that 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 have 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.
Anxious family members crowded around Peshawar hospitals
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 that 132 children and nine members of staff had been killed.
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.
RIP our supposed leaders of tomorrow!..
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