Pak school attack death toll climbs to 148

December 17, 2014 19:26

Seven more adults wounded in the brutal terror attack on a school run by Pakistan army in Peshawar succumbed to their injuries today, taking the number of those fallen to the bullets of Taliban militants to 148, most of them children.

The attack on Army Public School on Warsak Road was the most gruesome militant assault in Pakistan's history, bringing international condemnation and outrage.

At least six Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed the school and went from room to room shooting indiscriminately. A total of 132 children, in the first through 10th grades, died in the bloodbath.

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