[속보]탈레반, 파키스탄 초등학교 공격 84명 어린이 사망 Taliban gunmen storm military-run school in Pakistan and shoot dead...VIDEO

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Taliban gunmen storm military-run school in Pakistan and shoot dead EIGHTY-FOUR children as young as five

 

 

파키스탄 북부 페셔와르의 한 초등학교에 6명이 탈레반 난입해

학교안에서 4명의 테러리스트들이 학생 300명을 인질로 잡고 있어

그중 한명이 60명의 학생들이 있는 교실 등에서 자살폭탄 터트려

 

Gunmen in Peshawar entered school and started shooting at random
Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and exchanged fire
School was stormed by six gunmen in military fatigues, it was reported
300 children being held hostage, with four terrorists holed up inside school
Taliban accepted responsibility for the attack, claiming it 'was just a trailer'
The terrorist group said three suicide bombers were part of the attack
One terrorist blew himself up in a classroom containing 60 children
David Cameron described the attack on the school as 'deeply shocking'
The massacre is one of the worst ever in the deeply troubled region

 

Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar 

By Ted Thornhill for MailOnline and Aamir Iqbal

At least 100 people have been killed, including 84 children, after Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the worst ever militant attack to hit the troubled region.

It was reported that one suicide bomber blew himself up in a room containing 60 children.

 

The attack started with the gunmen entering the 500-pupil school - which has students in grades 1 to 10, thought to be ages 5 to 14 - in the early hours. The jihadists went from classroom to classroom, shooting at random.

 

Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and exchanged fire with the gunmen. Eye-witnesses described how students cowered under desks as dead bodies were strewn along corridors.

 

Around 300 children are still being held hostage, with four gunmen still inside.  A police inspector said they had trapped the terrorists in the principal’s office. Many of the soldiers involved in the rescue operation are trying to save their own children. 

 

During the last hour there were seven blasts. Two of them are said to be suicide blasts, a police superintendent said, the rest were grenade blasts. 

'We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,' said Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani. 'We want them to feel the pain.' 

 

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The attack started with the gunmen entering the 500-pupil school - which has students in grades 1-10, thought to be ages 5 to 14 - in the early hours

A hospital security guard helps a student injured in a shootout at a military school in Peshawar

Pakistani security forces takes up positions on a road leading to the Army Public School

Ambulances drive away from the military run school, which was attacked by the Taliban in the early hours

School was stormed by six gunmen in military fatigues , it was reported

A Pakistani soldier takes up a position above a road near the school

Mudassar Abbas, a physics laboratory assistant at the school, said some students were celebrating at a party when the attack began

 

'I saw six or seven people walking class-to-class and opening fire on children,' he said.
A student who survived the attack said soldiers came to rescue students during a lull in the firing.
'When we were coming out of the class we saw dead bodies of our friends lying in the corridors. They were bleeding. Some were shot three times, some four times,' the student said.
'The men entered the rooms one by one and started indiscriminate firing at the staff and students.'
Mushtaq Ghani, the spokesman for the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told journalist Aamir Iqbal: 'At least six militants wearing military uniforms entered the school from back wall of the school that is known as 'Army Public School'.
'There is a graveyard attached to back wall of the school that is run by Pakistani Military, most of the students studying in this school were children of military officers.
'Attacking innocent children is the most abominable crime and such an attack will not be accepted at all.
'This can be the reaction of ongoing military operations against terrorists in the North Waziristan area of Pakistan.'
Student Shuja khan claimed that 'the attack took place the time a senior military officer started his address during the function that was going on inside the school'.
He added: 'I am not sure but he was the Corp Commander Peshawar who when he started his speech terrorists opened fire on the students sitting in the function.'

 

Horror: A school boy who was injured in the Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

An armored personnel carrier moves toward the school

Pakistani army troops arrive to take on the Taliban attackers

A school boy who was injured in the Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

Taking no chances: Pakistani security forces form a perimeter around the school

A soldier escorts schoolchildren after they were rescued from the Army Public School

Mohammad Khorasani, the spokesman for Pakistani's Taliban Fazal Ullah group, accepted responsibility for the attack.

He said: 'It's a gift for those who thought they have crushed us in their so called military operation in North Waziristan.

'They [the Pakistani military] were always wrong about our capabilities, We are still able to carry out major attacks. Today was just the trailer.

 

'Six of our Mujahideen, including three suicide bombers took part in this attack and with the grace of almighty they all executed the plan very accurately.

 

'We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females. We want them to feel the pain.'

 

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called the massacre a 'national tragedy' and is on his way to the area. 

Prime Minister David Cameron today said the Taliban attack on the military school was 'deeply shocking'.

'It's horrifying that children are being killed simply for going to school,' he said.

 

Pakistani television showed soldiers surrounding the area and pushing people back.

One of the wounded students, Abdullah Jamal, said he was with a group of 8th, 9th and 10th graders who were getting first-aid instructions and training with a team of Pakistani army medics when the attack began.

WHY THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN PREFERS 'SOFT TARGETS' 

 

The school on Peshawar's Warsak Road is part of the Army Public Schools and Colleges System, which runs 146 schools nationwide for the children of military personnel and civilians. Its students range in age from around 10 to 18.

The schools educate the children of both officers and non-commissioned soldiers and army wives often teach in them.

TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani told AFP there were six attackers.

'They include target killers and suicide attackers. They have been ordered to shoot the older students but not the children,' he said.

'This attack is a response to Zarb-e-Azab and the killing of Taliban fighters and harassing their families.'

Zarb-e-Azb is the official name for the army's offensive against strongholds of the Taliban and other militants in North Waziristan.

The military has hailed the operation as a major success in disrupting the TTP's insurgency, which has killed thousands of Pakistanis since it erupted in 2007.

More than 1,600 militants have been killed since the launch of Zarb-e-Azb in June, according to data compiled by AFP from regular military statements.

Talat Masood, a retired general and security analyst, said the attack was intended to weaken the military's resolve.

'It is both tactical and strategic. The militants know they won't be able to strike at the heart of the military, they don't have the capacity because the army are prepared,' Masood told AFP.

'So they are going for soft targets. These attacks have a great psychological impact.'

The semi-autonomous tribal areas that border Afghanistan have for years been a hideout for Islamist militants of all stripes - including Al-Qaeda and the homegrown TTP as well as foreign fighters such as Uzbeks and Uighurs.

Washington pressed Islamabad for years to wipe out the sanctuaries in North Waziristan, which militants have used to launch attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan.

 

Prime Minister David Cameron today said the Taliban attack on the military school was 'deeply shocking'

Details were sketchy in the unfolding situation and it was unclear what was going on inside the school and if any of the students were taken hostage

Mohammad Khorasani, the spokesman for Pakistani's Taliban Fazal Ullah group, accepted responsibility for the attack 

A man talks on a phone, with his arm around a student, during the attack

Schoolchildren cross a road as they move away from the military run school

Pakistani rescue workers take out students from an ambulance injured in the shootout

When the shooting started, Mr Jamal, who was shot in the leg, said nobody knew what was going on in the first few seconds.

'Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet,' he said, speaking from his hospital bed.

'All the children had bullet wounds. All the children were bleeding,' he added. 

The Pakistani Taliba have targeted security forces, checkpoints, military bases and airports, but attacks on civilian targets with no logistical significance are relatively rare.

In September, 2013, dozens of people, including many children, were killed in an attack on a church, also in Peshawar.
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