(17 Dec 2014) The full devastation of a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school that left 148 people, mostly children, dead was revealed on Wednesday.
Walls inside the Peshawar school were pockmarked with bullet holes while the floors were streaked with blood.
Torn notebooks, pieces of clothing and children's shoes were scattered about.
After the attackers entered the school, they made their way into the main auditorium where many students had gathered for an event, military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa told reporters during a media tour of the school.
The militants then made their way to the auditorium's stage and started shooting at random.
As students tried to flee for the doors, they were gunned down.
Army commandos fought the Taliban in a day-long battle until the school was cleared and the attackers dead.
The military later recovered about 100 bodies from the auditorium alone, according to the spokesman.
Overnight, the body of the school principal, Tahira Qazi, was also found among the debris from the rampage.
Qazi, who was inside her office when the militants made their way into the administration building 20 metres (yards) from the auditorium, had ran and locked herself into the bathroom but the attackers threw a grenade inside, through a vent, and killed her Bajwa said.
The attack was the deadliest slaughter of innocents in the country and horrified a nation already weary of unending terrorist assaults.
The government has declared a three-day mourning period, starting Wednesday.


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