A school has been targeted this morning in Peshawar, and according to the first official balance sheets in the morning there were at least a hundred people, including 84 children. The hotel, managed by the Pakistan army was in full session of exams and up to 500 people were inside at the time of the attack.
According to a professor, the military would have taken half an hour to intervene.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which they presented as a response to the offensive launched in June by the army in their stronghold of North Waziristan.
A spokesman of the attackers said that his men were instructed not to target children. The fact remains that this is a school that was targeted this time.