Taliban school massacre with 100 killed

16:35 - 135 people, mostly students killed by Taliban in Pakistan army school seizure

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More than 100 people, including 84 students, were killed in a Taliban seizure of a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, according to provincial authorities.

"In CMH (Combined Military Hospital) there are around 60 and there are 24 dead in Lady Reading (hospital)," 

Pervaiz Khattak, chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Peshawar is located, told local media.

The death and injury tolls may still rise as the casualties of the assault are counted.

Some 500 students and teachers were in the Army Public School on Warsak Road at the time of the attack. Pakistan’s military say most of the civilians escaped, but some had been taken hostage by the assailants.