3-Day Mourning For School Attack Victims In Pakistan

 

Pakistan on Wednesday began three days of mourning for the 132 children and nine school staff massacred by the Taliban in the country's deadliest ever terror attack, as the world united in revulsion. (9 Gunmen, an 8-Hour Rampage and 132 Children Lost)

Across the country many schools closed as a mark of respect, while those that opened held special prayers for the 141 killed in Tuesday's assault on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

A group of heavily armed militants went from room to room at the school during an eight-hour killing spree claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that sparked condemnation worldwide.

Schools, colleges, offices and markets were closed across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the northwestern province of which Peshawar is the capital.

Across the border in India, at the urging of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, schools observed two minutes' silence to honour the dead

Funerals for the victims, many of whose bodies were pulled from the school still wearing their smart green uniforms drenched in blood, began late on Tuesday and the rest will be carried out on Wednesday.