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Taliban School Siege: All Militants Killed Leaving At Least 130 Victims [GRAPHIC IMAGES]

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Taliban school siege: All militants killed leaving at least 130 victims
Up to 104 people have reportedly been killed (Picture: AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

A bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan has ended, police said, with all six attackers dead.

The assault on the school in the city of Peshawar killed at least 130 people, most of them students, according to officials.

Children as young as five are among the dead.

Senior police official Shafqat Malik confirmed the combat phase of the response was over, while chief army spokesman General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter that the operation was ‘closing up’.

Bajwa said explosive devices planted in school buildings by the militants were slowing clearance efforts.

The media interview a man, who was rescued from the Army Public School that in under attack by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage on Tuesday in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, military officials said.  REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
Media interview a man rescued from the school (Picture: Reuters)

Special forces soldiers had rescued more than a dozen staff and students, Bajwa said.

Police were struggling to hold back distraught parents trying to break past a cordon and get to the school when three loud explosions went off earlier in the day, police officials said.

At least 130 children have been killed in the attack and many more are missing. The Taliban say they sent in six gunmen wearing suicide vests.

Taliban terrorists went to the high school in Peshawar and launched their deadly attack this morning.

Rescue workers and family members carry the coffin of a student, who killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage on Tuesday in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, military officials said.  REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)
Several bodies have been removed in coffins following the attack (Picture: Reuters)

A plainclothes security officer escorts students rescued from nearby school during a Taliban attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city, killing and wounding scores, officials said, in the worst attack to hit the country in over a year.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Children are escorted away from the school (Picture: AP)

Although the exact death toll is hard to confirm, local media is reporting that there are more than 100 dead, with several others being taken to hospital in a critical condition.

He said: ‘We selected the army’s school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females. We want them to feel our pain.’

The school is in Peshawar, a region of Pakistan which has suffered extreme violence in recent years.

epa04530857 A school boy who was injured in a Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, 16 December 2014. Pakistani commandos are fighting Taliban militants who have killed at least 23 people and taken hundreds of students and teachers hostage at a military-run school, officials said. 'The operation is under way' in the north-western city of Peshawar, said Pervaiz Khattak, chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. 'Intense gun fighting is taking place inside the school.' The area was cordoned off and helicopters were flying overhead. Those killed included 19 teenage students, Khattak said. The death toll may go up as militants have shot many other students in an auditorium at a school, a military statement said.  EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
There are unconfirmed reports that the attack was perpetrated by the Taliban (Picture: EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB)

Pervez Khattak, the chief minister of the province where Peshawar is located, said the death toll continued to rise throughout the day.

He added that a teacher and a security official were also among the dead.

The school is located on the edge of a military cantonment in Peshawar but the bulk of the students are civilian.

Taliban spokesman Mohammed Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to media, saying that six suicide bombers had carried out the attack in revenge for the killings of Taliban members at the hands of Pakistani authorities.

A soldier escorts schoolchildren after they were rescued from from the Army Public School that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage on Tuesday in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, military officials said.  REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

Soldiers attempted to evacuate as many students as possible, however there are still reportedly hundreds inside the school (Picture: REUTERS/Khuram Parvez)

One of the wounded students, Abdullah Jamal, said he was with a group of 8th, 9th and 10th graders who were getting first-aid instruction with a team of Pakistani army medics when the attack began.

When the shooting started, Mr Jamal, who was shot in the leg, said nobody knew what was going on in the first few seconds.

‘Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet,’ he said, speaking from his hospital bed.

‘All the children had bullet wounds. All the children were bleeding,’ he added.

Peshawar has been the target of frequent militant attacks in the past but has seen a relative lull recently.

A hospital security guard helps a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan,Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the northwestern Pakistani city, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, in the latest militant violence to hit the already troubled region. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
It is the latest incident of violence to affect the troubled region (Picture: AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) 
Pakistani rescue workers take out students from an ambulance who injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen, upon arrival at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the northwestern Pakistani city, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, in the latest militant violence to hit the already troubled region. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
The gunmen were reportedly firing at random (Picture: AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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