<p>Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed at least 126 people, most of them children, during an attack on a military-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning.</p><p><a href="http://rt.com/news/214707-pakistan-school-hostage-taliban/" target="_blank">RT reports</a> that there were around 500 students and teachers inside Peshawar&rsquo;s Army Public School at the time of the attack. While most escaped, some were taken hostage.</p><p>Shortly after the attack started, the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban, took credit, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/pakistan-peshawar-school-attack/" target="_blank">telling CNN</a> six suicide bombers had scaled the school&rsquo;s walls in the morning with orders to kill older students.</p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30491435" target="_blank">According to the BBC</a>, many of the casualties were the result of a suicide blast from one of the militants. There were <a href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1151203/ttp-militants-storm-peshawar-school-131-killed" target="_blank">multiple explosions</a> and reports of gunfire during the attack as Pakistani security forces worked to free the remaining hostages.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/AsimBajwaISPR" target="_blank">According to the Pakistani military</a>, all six militants have been killed, but clearing the school and rescuing hostages was delayed by IEDs. (Video via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h4oQl2g3pE" target="_blank">Geo TV</a>)</p><p>A Taliban spokesperson has said the attack is revenge for Pakistan&rsquo;s recent ground offensive against the Taliban in the country&rsquo;s northwestern Waziristan tribal area. The Pakistani military claims to have killed more than 1,000 militants in its operations since June. (Video via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fts9sseVQg" target="_blank">Channel 4</a>)</p><p>Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MalalaFund/posts/976645455682640" target="_blank">condemned the attack</a> calling it a <strong>&quot;senseless and cold blooded act of terror&quot;</strong>. The Taliban shot Yousafzai&nbsp;in 2011 for advocating women&#39;s rights in Pakistan. (Video via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_sIP08PZ6I" target="_blank">United Nations</a>)</p><p>Calling the attack a national tragedy, Pakistan&rsquo;s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened a meeting of all of the country&rsquo;s political parties to come up with a strategy against further attacks.</p>