Pakistan Taliban 'kill 100' in assault on Peshawar faculty

Five or six militants sporting security uniforms entered the college, officers same. gunshot and explosions were detected as security forces enclosed the realm.

A Taliban representative says the assault is in response to army operations.Hundreds of Taliban fighters square measure thought to own died during a recent military offensive in North Waziristan and therefore the close Khyber space.

The army says most of the school's five hundred students are exhausted. it's not clear what percentage square measure being command surety.A school employee and a student interviewed by the native Geo TV station same the attackers had entered the military Public School's area, wherever a military team was conducting first-aid coaching for college students.

The BBCs Aamer Ahmed Khan in Asian country says Pakistan is familiar with militant violence - however the most recent attack has left the country in shock.

The attack started at 10:00 civil time (05:00 GMT).

As presently because the firing started, we tend to ran to our school rooms, he said. They were coming into each category and that they were killing the kids.Locals same they conjointly detected the screams of scholars and academics. The dead square measure same to incorporate academics, further as a paramilitary soldier.

Mudassir Awan, a employee at the college, same he saw six folks scaling the walls of the college.We thought it should be the kids enjoying some game, he told Reuters agency. then again we tend to saw plenty of firearms with them.

The school is at the sting of a military camp in Peshawar, that has seen a number of the worst of the violence throughout a Taliban rebellion in recent years.Many of the scholars were the kids of military personnel. Most of them would are aged sixteen or beneath.

The Pakistani opposition politician and former cricket captain Imran Khan has condemned the attack as utter inhumanity.