Peshawar school attack mastermind killed in US drone strike

PESHAWAR: The mastermind of the Pakistani Taliban attack on an army school here that left over 140 schoolchildren dead in 2014 has been k...

PESHAWAR: The mastermind of the Pakistani Taliban attack on an army school here that left over 140 schoolchildren dead in 2014 has been killed in a US drone strike in neighbouring Afghanistan, security officials said.

Officials said Umar Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been killed along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah, in the US drone attack in the Bandar area of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Saturday.

An official said they had credible reports of Mansour having been killed with Saifullah, who was in charge of Taliban suicide bombers, the Dawn reported.

"What we have is pretty credible," he was quoted as saying in the report.

The massacre on December 16, 2014, left 144 students and staff members dead after seven gunmen of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) stormed the Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar.





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