Baku. Zumrud Pashayeva – APA. The alleged planner of the Peshawar school massacre has been killed in a shootout, a Pakistani official has said, APA reports quoting Sky News.
The commander was killed on Thursday night in the hour-long gunfight with security forces in the restive Khyber tribal area, which borders the northwestern city of Peshawar. The militant was known only as Saddam. His six accomplices were injured and arrested in the shootout. Authorities are currently interrogating the six, he said.
On 16 December, Taliban militants strapped with explosives broke into a military-run school in Peshawar, and killed 148 people, including 132 children.
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