Global Information2014 Peshawar school massacre information
| 2014 Peshawar School Massacre سانحہ آرمی پبلک اسکول | |
|---|---|
 Army Public School Auditorium, Peshawar, Pakistan | |
 Location of the attack: Army Public School is located in the centre | |
| Location | Peshawar, Warsak Road, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Coordinates | 34°00′49″N 71°32′10″E / 34.01361°N 71.53611°E |
| Date | 16 December 2014 10:30 PKT[1] – 19:56 PKT[2] (UTC+05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at Army Public School |
Attack type | Suicide bombing,[3] spree killing, hostage-taking,[4] school shooting |
| Deaths | 156 (including the six perpetrators)[5] |
| Injured | 114[6] |
| Perpetrators |  Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan[7] |
| Defenders |  Pakistan Army
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| Motive | Retaliation against
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On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The terrorists, all of whom were foreign nationals, comprising one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans,[8] entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children,[6][9] killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren ranging between eight and eighteen years of age, making it the world's fifth deadliest school massacre.[10][11] Pakistan launched a rescue operation undertaken by the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG) special forces, who killed all six terrorists and rescued 960 people.[6][12][13] In the long term, Pakistan established the National Action Plan to crack down on terrorism.
According to various news agencies and commentators, the nature and preparation of the attack was very similar to that of the Beslan school hostage crisis that occurred in the North Ossetia–Alania region of the Russian Federation in 2004.[14][15][16][17][18]
Pakistan responded to the attacks by lifting its moratorium on the death penalty, committing more resources to the War in North-West Pakistan, and authorizing military courts to try civilians through a constitutional amendment. On 2 December 2015, Pakistan hanged four militants involved in the Peshawar massacre.[19] The mastermind of the attack, Omar Khorasani, was killed in Afghanistan on 7 August 2022 by a roadside mine.[20] The Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld the death sentences of two more convicts involved in the attack in the Said Zaman Khan v. Federation of Pakistan case on 29 August 2016.[21]
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- ^ "Taliban attack in Pakistan a chilling reminder of Beslan school siege". Indian Express. 17 December 2014. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
Taliban attackers' brazen assault on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar city that claimed the lives of over 150 pupils today has brought back chilling memories of a similar bloodbath in Russia in 2004 when Chechen rebels stormed a school.
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The only parallels in modern history to today's Taliban attack on a Pakistan school were those by Islamist militant separatists on a Beslan school in North Ossetia.
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