Summary

  • Officials say more than 140 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in north-west Pakistan

  • Pakistan's security forces say their operation has now ended, with all seven attackers killed

  • Some pupils, who escaped, earlier said the gunmen went from classroom to classroom, shooting children indiscriminately

  • The Taliban say the assault is in response to army operations in North Waziristan and the Khyber area. All times GMT

Live Reporting

Yaroslav Lukov, Alastair Lawson, Kerry Alexandra, Julia Macfarlane, Sally Taft and Jasmine Coleman

  1. For more information about the Taliban conflict in Pakistan, visit the BBC's Special Report page.

  2. Tweet @BBC_HaveYourSay

    Hassam tweets: I hope Pakistanis would stop criticising #Malala & deeming her attack as a fabrication now that another school has endured terror. #Pakistan

  3. Tahirul Qadri, influential Canada-based cleric

    tweets: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri strongly condemns the attack on children's school in #Peshawar

  4. A Pakistani army soldier takes position on a bunker close to a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, 16 December 2014.AP

    A Pakistani army soldier takes position on a bunker close to the school.

  5. If you are seeing the abbreviation KPK used a lot, it stands for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the north-western province in Pakistan which borders Afghanistan.

  6. "We targeted the school because the army targets our families. We want them to feel our pain," Reuters news agency quotes the Taliban as saying.

  7. The provincial government has announced three days of mourning, according to The Express Tribune.

  8. Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune reports that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says the Peshawar school attack is a national crisis. "I will monitor the operation personally from Peshawar," he says.

  9. Asad Hashim, journalist

    tweets: KPK Chief Minister says 24 dead bodies are in Lady Reading Hospital, while 60 are at the Combined Military Hospital

  10. Mamnoon Hussain in July 2013Getty Images

    Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain has condemned the attack, APP news agency reports. He expressed deep grief over the loss of innocent lives and stressed the need to bring the culprits to justice.

  11. Shahzeb Jillani
    BBC News

    Latest figures are now 104 killed (including 84 students) in the Peshawar school attack, according to chief minister KPK Pervez Khattak.

  12. Email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk

    Shireen in Peshawar emailed: "Not only have they attached the school and held the students hostage, they are not letting any one enter or leave the building. The roads across Peshawar are blocked and both the students and their parents are in a constant state of panic."

  13. Peshawar attack 16 december 2014Reuters

    An ambulance drives away from the school in Peshawar under attack from Taliban militants.

  14. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk

    Naeem Khan in Peshawar told the BBC: "I was in area when I heard a blast. It was huge. I moved nearer to the place where sound came from. Security forces wouldn't allow anyone to go in. The media weren't allowed in either at that time."

  15. The dead are believed to include many schoolchildren as well as teachers and a paramilitary soldier.

  16. peshawar tv 16 december 2014Reuters

    Local TV stations show wounded children in hospital following the attack.

  17. Local media are reporting that the death toll has risen to at least 50.

  18. The phrases 'Army Public School' and 'Warsak Road', the location of the school, are trending on Twitter in Pakistan.

  19. Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's largest Islamic party

    tweets: We strongly condemn the attack on Peshawar school. Attack on innocent children in the name of religion is not acceptable.

  20. BBC Monitoring

    Pakistan's Urdu TV channel Geo News cites security forces as saying three attackers have been killed in the operation at the Peshawar school.