These are the faces of the savages responsible for slaughtering 148 people — including 132 children — at a Pakistan school.
Pakistan’s Taliban on Wednesday proudly posted the picture of the terrorist thugs who slaughtered students as young as 6 during a rampage through a military-run school in Peshawar.
As many as nine extremists were involved in the massacre, according to numerous reports.
Survivors told harrowing tales of how they came out alive. One made it through sheer luck.
A faulty alarm clock made a 15-year-old Pakistani boy the sole survivor of his entire ninth-grade class.
Dawood Ibrahim overslept Tuesday morning when his alarm failed to ring. As he slept, the attackers struck.
His classmates were among the casualties in the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan — intensifying fears of more mayhem and sending the country into mourning.
Syed Basit Naqvi, 13, narrowly escaped death by ducking down when one of the terrorists fired at point-blank range.
“The bullet slightly hit my head, and I deliberately fell down,” he told Bloomberg News from his hospital bed. “He must’ve thought I was dead.”
Naqvi learned his mother, who worked as a teacher at the school, was among the dead when he was being taken away by ambulance and realized her body was in the vehicle.
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Mass funerals were held across Pakistan on Wednesday as parents tearfully said goodbye to their children.
At a vigil in the capital city of Islamabad, Fatimah Khan, 38, said she was devastated. “I don’t have words for my pain and anger,” she said. “They slaughtered those children like animals.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to no longer distinguish between “good or bad Taliban.”
Critics have complained that Pakistan repeatedly turned a blind eye to some terror groups in its midst.
“We will continue this war until even a single terrorist is not left on our soil,” Sharif said.
Pakistan also lifted a 2008 moratorium on using the death penalty for terrorist crimes.
The attack was so shocking that even neighboring Taliban factions in Afghanistan deemed the slayings “un-Islamic.”
But the Pakistani Taliban said the attack was just the beginning of its retaliation for military assaults by Pakistani troops.
With Post Wire Services
