Taliban assault on Pakistani school ends, 141 dead, mostly children

Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say.
Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers killed. A total of seven militants took part, according to the military.
Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children. The attack is the deadliest ever by the Taliban in Pakistan.
There has been chaos outside hospital units to which casualties were taken, the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from Peshawar.
Bodies have been carried out of hospitals in coffins, escorted by crowds of mourners, some of them visibly distraught.
Taliban gunmen stormed into at a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning. An working journalist at the scene heard heavy gunfire from inside the school as soldiers surrounded it. Helicopters hovered overhead and ambulances ferried wounded children to hospital. Military officials at the scene said at least six armed men had entered the military-run Army Public School. About 500 students and teachers were believed to be inside. ‘We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers,’ said Jamshed Khan, a school bus driver. One student inside the school at the time of the attack told a private television channel: ‘We were in the examination hall when all of sudden firing started and our teachers told us to silently lay on the floor. We remained on the floor for an hour. There was a lot of gunfire. ‘When the gunfire died down our soldiers came and guided us out,’ according to Reuters.