In 2014, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan terrorists assault an Army Public School in Pakistan, killing 145 people.
Six shooters linked with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) carried out a terrorist assault on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014. Pakistan executed four terrorists implicated in the Peshawar massacre on December 2, 2015.
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