Mr moment, the world was destroyed - fire, smoke and dead bodies scattered throughout the halls and corridors of the school, crazed gunmen rushing from room to room shooting indiscriminately at students and adults.
At least 132 Pakistanis, most of them children, were killed in broad daylight attack on a military-run school on Tuesday, praising the Taliban attack in retaliation for the killing of his own relatives from the Pakistani army.
Reuters interviews with witnesses showed that most of the victims were shot in the early hours of the assault, when gunmen doused the room with bullets in a disorderly slaughterhouse.
It is possible that some of them were also killed in the shootout with Pakistani armed forces who stormed the building.
School in Peshawar, in the Pakistani city on the edge of the turbulent tribal belt of the country is under the control of the army. Although students learn about civilians, many of his students are children of army officials, the target of the Taliban.
The main entrance are omitted, heavily guarded and slid through a less frequently used input back, added the witnesses.
Shahrukh Khan, 15, was shot in both legs but survived after hiding under a bench.
"One of my teachers was crying, she was shot in the hand and she was crying in pain," he said while lying on a bed at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
"A terrorist then approached her and started shooting until she stopped making noise. Around me my friends lay wounded and dead."
Lew himself, resulting in several charred bodies and suicide victims.
Reuters correspondent visiting joint military city hospital said his corridors were aligned with the dead students, their green-yellow uniforms links vyzyraly white bags.
A distraught family member was given the wrong body, because many people were severely burned children as a result of suicide bombings.
Khalid Khan, 13, told Reuters he and his classmates were in the first class care in the main hall when two armed men shaved, dressed in white and black jackets entered the room.
"They opened fire on the students, and then went out. The military doctor and soldiers managed to escape and we locked the door from the inside," he said. "But very soon they came, broke the door and went back and started shooting."
He said that many have tried to hide under the desk, but were shot in any case, adding that there were about 150 students in the hall around the attack.
Others said that the militants turned to each other in a language they could only recognize as Arabic or Farsi or - perhaps a testament to the Taliban hundred foreign fighters hiding them in remote mountains on the Pakistani-Afghan border.
Another student, Jalal Ahmed, 15, could barely speak, choking tears as Reuters approached him to a hospital.
"I biochemistry student, and I attended a lecture in our main hall. There are five doors in the room. After a while we heard someone kicking the back door. There were shots, but our teacher told us to be calm and reassured us.
"Then they came with big guns."
Ahmed began to cry. Standing next to his bed, his father, Mushtaq Ahmed, said: "He continues to shout:" Take me home, take me home, they will come back and kill me. "
A nine-year-old boy who asked not to be named because he was too frightened to identify themselves, said teachers pass their class through the back door, once started shooting.
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