In pictures: Peshawar school attack

More than 140 people, most of them children, were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials say.

Troops were mobilised after militants wearing security uniforms entered the Army Public School and began firing on students.

Pupils fled the scene as seven militants wearing bomb vests attacked the school.

Some younger children were escorted away from the scene by soldiers.

The injured were ferried to hospitals in the city.

The dead are said to include mostly children, as well teachers and a paramilitary soldier.

The army said most of the school's 500 students were evacuated.

Roads around the army-run school were sealed off.

While armed troops surrounded the site, gunfire and explosions were heard from the school.

The children's relatives have faced a harrowing wait for news

The local hospitals were full of distraught parents

A Taliban spokesman said the assault was in response to recent army operations, in which hundreds of militants have died.