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Sharif vows to continue fight against terrorism

| | Dec 17, 2014, at 09:40 pm
Peshawar, Dec 17 (IBNS) A day after the school horror that claimed 132 lives of children besides others in a Taliban attack in Peshawar, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said his government will combat the terrorists.

He chaired a high level meeting of parliamentary parties in Peshawar attended by all the top political parties.

According to Geo TV, Sharif described the Peshawar school attack as a "national tragedy unleashed by savages", and said  the government appreciates and acknowledges the sacrifices rendered by the armed forces in order to eliminate terrorism from the country.

He said that tragedies like Peshawar carnage are hard to found and that the details of the attack would soon become public, the channel reported.

In a bloody carnage that left the world stunned, the Taliban terrorists in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday shot dead 141 people, including 132 school children, after storming into an Army Public School in the morning hours, officials said.

Pakistani army and police officials said besides the children, the dead included nine staff members of the school. About 124 others were wounded in the attack for which the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility.

Police said all the six Taliban terrorists who raided the school were killed, ending the siege by evening. Later reports said nine terrorists had raided the school.

According to media reports, the gunmen- wearing Pakistani army uniforms, first triggered a blast in the Army Public School and then they "went from classroom to classroom, shooting children."

Eye witnesses said blood spattered bodies were strewn all over and cries rented the air. Later many were rescued by the Army. 

The attack occurred at around 10 am local time. In the evening, officials said they had cleared the school of militants, killing all six of them.
 

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