Survivor of Peshawar school massacre posts heartbreaking before-after picture
January 16, 2015  12:57
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On Monday, the young students who survived one of Pakistan's worst terrorist attacks returned to the Army Public School in Peshawar.

The school was shut for a month after the Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists massacred 150 people, mostly children in the school.

As traumatised students of the army-run school returned after the unusually long winter break, extended for 12 days due to threat of militants, this picture was posted on Twitter. 

Back in school, teenager Talha Munir Paracha posted two images in an attempt to recreate what he had lost. The first image shows Paracha with three friends.

Paracha and another student recreated the photo, but with a gaping hole -- which signified that their two friends had been killed in the incident.

Militants killed 150 people, including 134 students, on December 16, during a 7-hour siege, leading to closure of educational institutions across Pakistan. A tweet by army spokesperson, Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, said Gen Raheel joined the students in the morning assembly. "Standing proudly to sing national anthem," Bajwa said.

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