At least 126, mostly children, slaughtered as Taliban storm Pakistan school

The Taliban stormed a
military-run school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday,
gunning down at least 126 people -- most of them children
-- in one of the volatile Asian nation's deadliest attacks.

Hours after the attack, Pakistani troops were still
exchanging gunfire with the militants inside the Army Public
School and Degree College in the violence-plagued city of
Peshawar, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the
country's capital, Islamabad.
Two explosions were also heard.
By around 4 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), the Pakistani military had
pushed the attackers back to four blocks of the school,
military spokesman Gen. Asim BajwaI tweeted. BajwaI over
an hour later said that six assailants had been killed.
It was unclear, by then, how many of the hundreds of
students at the co-ed school -- which is for children of
army personnel and has a capacity of 1,000 -- were still
inside, not to mention how many more were dead or alive.
More than 100 people were injured, ministers in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province said.
"2 more children, 2 teachers rescued," BajwaI wrote around
5:15 a.m. "6th terrorist killed in last block. IEDs planted by
terrorists hamper speed of clearance."