The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as revenge for Operation Zarb-e-Azb, the Pakistani military's offensive in North Waziristan that started in summer 2014. TTP spokesman Muhammad Omar Khorasani said that "we targeted the school because the Army targets our families.

What happened in Peshawar attack?

Peshawar school massacre, terrorist attack in which seven heavily armed Taliban fighters stormed an army-run primary and secondary school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014, killing 150 people, of whom at least 134 were students.

What happened on 16 December Peshawar?

On 16 December 2014 Taliban gunmen stormed the Army Public School in the northern city of Peshawar. More than 150 people were killed, 132 of them children. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil has returned to the school a year on, to see how the survivors have coped and how life at the school is today.