Taliban attacked Peshawar school to kill 'as many as possible'

Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations has said that the terrorists who attacked a school in Peshawar did not intend to take hostages but kill as many as possible.

While briefing the press on Tuesday, DGISPR Asim Bajwa said that the attack was aimed at terrorising the school kids rather than take hostages to further the outfit's aims, reported the Dawn.

Bajwa said that 141 people were killed including, 132 children and 9 staff members of the school. He added that 1,099 children were registered at the school and 960 people were rescued.

The terrorists wore suicide vests and started shooting the moment they entered the school premises, he said.

Terming the terrorists "inhuman," Bajwa remarked that no one could have imagined that terrorists would target innocent children like this.

He added that the operation against militants would continue and would not stop until each one of them was finished.

Almost 10 terrorists stormed inside the school dressed as Frontier Corps' officers. The TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani said that the attackers were asked to target the older children but not the younger ones.

Image: A boy walks where people said Taliban gunmen burnt a car to a block a road outside the Army Public School, which was attacked by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters