A Taliban suicide squad attacked a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 141 people — 132 of them children — in one of the bloodiest massacres in the country’s violent history.
Amid explosions and gunfire, Pakistani troops took eight hours to regain control of the Army Public School, which mainly educates the children of soldiers, and kill the seven insurgents who had climbed over a wall into the school to shoot pupils and take hostages.
A Pakistan Taliban spokesman said the attack was mounted to avenge a military campaign against Islamist strongholds on the Afghan border that had killed Taliban families. “We want them to feel the pain,” he said.
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