Pakistan PM: Zarb-e-Azb operation to continue
The Pakistani security forces launched its Zarb-e-Azb operation against militants in North Waziristan on June 15, shortly after a terrorist attack at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, which killed 28 people.
UPDATE: Pakistani official says at least 126 people have died and 122 people injured (more than 100 are schoolchildren)
"It may rise," said Bahramand Khan, director of information for the Chief Minister's Secretariat.
He said more than 100 of the dead were school children.
via Reuters
Heartbreaking tweets from Pakistani human rights activist Ali Sayan Hasan
Reuters: Pakistani mlitary says four Taliban attackers killed at school, search continues for remaining gunmen.
From the Facebook page of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami political party, which has condemned the attack.
Eyewitness account
Ebad, a student in the 10th grade spoke to RFE/RL Radio Mashaal correspondent Zaland Yosufzai near the school shortly after the attack. Here's what he said:
"It was 10:30 this morning when we were called to the auditorium to get first aid training by an army colonel. When we arrived, firing started and [the militants] entered the auditorium. They killed so many students -- I saw some 40 to 50 killed right in front of me and they fired on colonel as well. There were also bomb blasts. I saw 4 or 5 of them [the militants] wearing black plain cloths when they entered."