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Taliban kill 126 in attack on Pakistan secondary school

At least 126 people were killed and 122 injured in an attack by Taliban militants on a Pakistani secondary school yesterday.

And director of information for the Chief Minister’s Secretariat Bahramand Khan warned that the death toll may still rise.

Mr Khan said more than 100 of the dead were schoolchildren.

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