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17 Dec 2014

Pakistan in mourning as parents bury children after school attack

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

A boy stands where people said Taliban gunmen burnt a car to block a road outside the Army Public School, which was attacked by Taliban gunmen, in PeshawarBy Mehreen Zahra-Malik PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan woke up to a day of mourning on Wednesday after Taliban militants killed 132 students at a school in the city of Peshawar in a grisly attack which shocked the nation and put pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. People around the country lit candles and staged overnight vigils as parents prepared to bury their children during mass funerals in and around Peshawar – a big, volatile city on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-mourning-parents-bury-children-school-attack-052633701.html