Taliban Kills 145 in a School Attack

The world has seen yet another horrific terrorist attack. This one came in Peshawar, Pakistan, when seven members of the Pakistani Taliban broke into an army-run school on Tuesday morning and went on a killing spree.

The incident took the lives of 145 people, including 132 students aged 12 to 16. One survivor, Salmannot his real namewas in a careers guidance session in the auditorium with his classmates when the gunmen stormed in. "Someone screamed at us to get down and hide below the desks," the 16-year-old boy said at the trauma ward of Lady Reading's Hospital in the city. "Then one of them shouted, 'there are so many children beneath the benches, go and get them'," he said, as quoted by AFP.

December 23, 2014