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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