SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
At least 13 people including 11 students, a teacher and a security guard were martyred and dozens others injured when militants attacked an army-run school situated on Warsak Road in Peshawar today.
Five or six militants wearing military uniforms entered the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar, a source at the school told.
“There has been an incident of firing at Army Public School in Peshawar. Troops have cordoned off the area and (are) searching for the militants,” a senior military official told.
The militants took students and teachers hostage while exchange of fire between the militants and security forces is underway.
Furthermore, the sources told that at least 30 injured including teachers and students were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital while nine students and a woman succumbed to injuries. Emergency has been declared in the Peshawar hospital.
Warsak Road was closed for all sorts of traffic while a vehicle was also set ablaze by the militants on the road.he attack comes as the military wages a major offensive against Taliban and other militants in the tribal area of North Waziristan.
TTP claims attack
A spokesman for a faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the gunmen had been ordered to shoot older students but not children.
TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani told there were six attackers.
“They include target killers and suicide attackers. They have been ordered to shoot the older students but not the children,” he said.
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