A spokesman for the Pakistani military says that 141 people, most of them children, were killed in a Taliban assault on a school.

Asim Bajwa told a news conference Tuesday that 132 of the dead were children and another nine were staff members.

He said there were seven attackers, who all wore explosive vests.

He said they didn't appear to want to take anyone hostage but instead started firing indiscriminately when they entered the school.

The school attack is one of the worst in Pakistan's history.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby calls the terrorist attack in Pakistan "pure cowardice."

Admiral Kirby told a briefing that the Taliban attack on a school was a "heartless slaughter."  More than 100 children are among those killed in the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar.  Dozens of others were wounded.

Kirby noted that the U.S. has offered any assistance that Pakistan may need.

 

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