Pakistan LIVE: Taliban take 500 children hostage in Army school in Peshawar
- As the gunbattle remains on between the security forces and the terrorists, reports say that the number of injured children may shoot up.
- The responsibility for the attack has been claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. According to an AFP report, the terrorists have been ordered to shoot older students at the Army-run school.
- Some 35 children are said to be injured and they are being rushed to the nearby hospitals.
- Pakistani security forces have cordoned off the school and gunfire can be heard.
- An Army school in Peshawar's cantonment area has been attacked by six terrorists on Tuesday morning. According to a Reuters report, the terrorists are holding some 500 students and children hostage.
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