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.

Pakistani army troops arrive at the scene of an armed incident in PeshawarAP

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

School children fleeing from the scene of an armed incident in PeshawarReuters

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

A soldier escorts schoolchildren away from a school attacked by gunmen in PeshawarReuters

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

A security guard helps a student after a gun attack at a school in PeshawarAP

The injured were ferried to hospitals in the city.

Ambulances near a school which was attacked by gunmen in PeshawarReuters

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

A student is helped after a gun attack at a school in PeshawarAP

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

Pakistani army troops guard a road near an armed incident in PeshawarReuters

Roads around the army-run school were sealed off.

A Pakistani army soldier involved in an armed incident in PeshawarAP

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

Relatives of Peshawar schoolchildrenAP

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

Distraught parents arriving at hospitalEPA

The local hospitals were full of distraught parents

Pakistani soldiers stand near the ruins of a house in North WaziristanReuters

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