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STORY: Sirens wailed as ambulances streamed to Peshawar's Lady Reading hospital on Tuesday (December 16) carrying victims of a bloody Taliban attack on a school in the northern city.
At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed after Taliban gunmen broke into the school and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre Pakistan has seen for years.
More than eight hours after militants entered the school compound, the military declared the operation to expel them over, and said that all nine insurgents had been killed.
Earlier, the provincial minister Shah Farman said casualty figures were high.
Officials said 122 people were wounded. A local hospital said the dead and injured were aged from 10 to 20 years old.
The attack at a military-run high school attended by at least 500 students, many of them children of army personnel, struck at the heart of Pakistan's military establishment, an assault cert
