Taliban attack on Pakistan school: how one boy survived

Updated December 17 2014 - 10:59am, first published 10:46am
A man comforts his son, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. This is not the boy Salman who played dead to avoid the gunmen. Photo: Reuters.
A man comforts his son, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. This is not the boy Salman who played dead to avoid the gunmen. Photo: Reuters.

Peshawar: A teenage survivor of the Taliban attack on Army Public School in Peshawar has described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents hunting down students to kill.

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