Chopper Crashes in Northern Pakistan, Kills Four Foreign Envoys

A Pakistani Chopper crashed today in a mountainous part of northern Pakistan, killing six people including the Philippine and Norwegian ambassadors and the wives of the ambassadors of Malaysia and Indonesia, the army have informed the media.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif was travelling to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit in a separate plane to inaugurate two projects when the accident took place. The PM is safe; the PMO has let the media know.   

Asim Bajwa, military spokesperson, confirms the incident in his twitter post, which said that four foreigners along with two pilots were killed in the accident. He said the ambassadors of Poland and the Netherlands were among the injured.

It has been know that around 11foreigners were on board the MI-17, which crashed into a school in Gilgit and caught fire.

The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said they were behind the attack, but there is no confirmation of the claim. But one thing is for sure that the effort of the Pakistan government to promote the tourism in the country has been pushed to the wall as the fleet was going to attend the opening of a tourism project.

Further details are awaited in the incident.   

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Taliban Gunmen Storm Into Army-run School In Peshawar: 500 Students Held Hostage; At Least 12 Dead, 40 Injured

Six gunmen of the banned terror outfit Tahreek-E-Taliban have stormed into an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan. At least 500 school students and several teachers are said to have been held hostage. 

Clad in army fatigues, the terrorists started firing bullets indiscriminately and set vehicles ablaze before getting into the school premises.  A reliable police source has confirmed that the school has been cordoned off and rescue operations have been started.

Many of the students could manage to flee the seized school through the back door. One of such children said, "First we didn't know what has happened. But late an army officer told us to escape through back gate."

"After half an hour of the attack, the army came and sealed the school," a teacher told the reporters outside the school. "We were in the examination hall when the attack took place," he said. "Now the army men are clearing the classes one by one."

Taliban has taken responsibility of the incident. "Our suicide bombers have entered the school, they have instructions not to harm the children, but to target the army personnel," taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani said.

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