Pakistan school to reopen on January 12 post Taliban massacre

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced that the Army Public School in Peshawar will be reopened on January 12, almost a month after the Taliban massacre that left 132 children dead.

According to Dawn News, other educational institutions in the province will also be reopened on the same day.

After the December 16 carnage, the government had ordered stricter orders for all the schools across the country regarding their security measures.

Hospital security guards carry a students injured in the shootout at a school under attacked by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan,Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - Reuters
 

As many as 141 people, nearly all of them school children, were massacred on Tuesday  when heavily armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan army-run school in Peshawar, firing indiscriminately, leaving another 130 injured.

Due to the threats of further attack by the Taliban, the government had also extended winter vacations in educational institutions. 

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