Nobel prize winner Malala 'heartbroken' by Pakistan school attack
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STORY: Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, joint winner of this year's Nobel peace prize for education campaign work and survivor of a Taliban attack in 2012, said on Tuesday (December 16) she was devastated by a Taliban killing spree at a school in Peshawar that left over 130 students dead.
"My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives in this recent attack on a school in Peshawar and we stand with all those families and all those children who are injured right now and who are suffering through this big trauma," Malala, who now lives in central England, said in a video statement.
Nine staff members were also killed after Taliban gunmen broke into the school and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.
More than eight hours after militants slipped into the heavily guarded compound through a back entran
STORY: Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, joint winner of this year's Nobel peace prize for education campaign work and survivor of a Taliban attack in 2012, said on Tuesday (December 16) she was devastated by a Taliban killing spree at a school in Peshawar that left over 130 students dead.
"My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives in this recent attack on a school in Peshawar and we stand with all those families and all those children who are injured right now and who are suffering through this big trauma," Malala, who now lives in central England, said in a video statement.
Nine staff members were also killed after Taliban gunmen broke into the school and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.
More than eight hours after militants slipped into the heavily guarded compound through a back entran