Four convicts in Pakistan school massacre hanged

KARACHI, Pakistan

Four convicts involved in a deadly gun-and-bomb attack on an army-run school in northwestern Peshawar last year were executed Wednesday, the Pakistani interior ministry said.

Over 140 people, mostly students, were killed in the attack, which was one of the deadliest terrorism incidents in the militancy-plagued South Asian nuclear state.

“The four convicts were hanged in Kohat jail early on Wednesday morning after being allowed a final meeting with their families last night,” an interior ministry official told Anadolu Agency on the condition of anonymity.

The executed convicts were members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a consortium of different insurgent groups in Pakistan, and had claimed responsibility for the gruesome attack.

Pakistan had lifted a six-year de facto ban on the death penalty after the Peshawar school massacre.

Nearly 300 convicts have been hanged since then.

KARACHI, Pakistan

Four convicts involved in a deadly gun-and-bomb attack on an army-run school in northwestern Peshawar last year were executed Wednesday, the Pakistani interior ministry said.

Over 140 people, mostly students, were killed in the attack, which was one of the deadliest terrorism incidents in the militancy-plagued South Asian nuclear state.

The executed convicts were members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a consortium of different insurgent groups in Pakistan, and had claimed responsibility for the gruesome attack.

Pakistan had lifted a six-year de facto ban on the death penalty after the Peshawar school massacre.

Nearly 300 convicts have been hanged since then.