Taliban kill more than a hundred person in a school in Pakistan

126 people were killed, most of them children, in an attack by the Taliban on a school run by the army in the city of Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, officials said.
After battles with security forces lasted hours, the Pakistani army declared an end to the crisis killing of militants and the number 6.
The army says the majority of students at the school, and the number 500, had been evacuated.
It seems that the insurgents were determined to kill the largest possible number of students, not the hostage-taking as it was thought earlier, according to Hahazeeb Gilani, BBC correspondent in Karachi.
During the past few years, thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in violence by militants, but the attack on the school caused an unprecedented shock, where it is seen as the worst in the country's history.
A spokesman for the insurgents told the BBC that the targeting of the school came in response to military operations against the movement.
Was quoted by Reuters news agency, a Taliban spokesman as saying that the attack came because "the government has targeted our families and our women."
"I want them to feel the pain."
It is widely believed that hundreds of fighters in the ranks of the Taliban were killed in a military operation carried out by the army recently in North Waziristan and the Khyber region.



Reports indicate that the majority of victims of the attack on the school were killed in a suicide bombing. A local official told Reuters that there are more than a hundred children were among the dead.
The attack began at ten o'clock in the morning local time (05:00 Greenwich Mean). A worker at the school that he saw six people climbing the walls.
Worker told Reuters added, "We thought they were children playing a game. But we have seen them a lot of firearms."
"Once the shooting started, we rushed to the classroom. They walk in each chapter and kill children."
Roy population in the region that they heard sounds of screaming students and teachers. As I heard the sounds of shooting and explosions in the security forces were pursuing the gunmen.
The scene is filled with ambulances transporting the wounded to hospitals, while helicopters hovered in the sky. The authorities closed the main roads in Peshawar.
She said a doctor at a local hospital that a lot of students in the "very poor condition", referring to some of them were injured in the head.
The families of the students gathered in a state of panic about the hospital to check on their children.
The school is located near a military compound near the Afghan border city of Peshawar, which has seen some of the worst violence during continuous years since the Taliban insurgency.
He moved the Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, to Peshawar, described the attack as a "national tragedy".

source: bbc arabic