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PESHAWAR: Taliban militants have entered an army-run school on Warsak road, taking students and teachers hostage.

• Five to six terrorists have entered the Army Public School

• 104 including 84 children killed, scores injured

• Firefight, evacuation underway

• About 500 students and teachers are believed to be inside

2:11 pm - PM Nawaz leaves for Peshawar

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves for Peshawar to supervise the ongoing operation against Taliban.

"I have decided to proceed to Peshawar and I will supervise the operation my self," PM Nawaz Sharif said in a short statement before his departure to Peshawar.

"These are my children and it is my loss," the premier said.

2:10pm - 104 dead in attack: KP CM

Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak says 84 children have been killed in the attack.

"The terrorists entered the school wearing FC personnel uniform," he says.

He puts the total death toll at 104. He says 23 bodies have been taken to the LRH, with 60 in CMH.

2:05pm - Army trying to bring situation under control: KP Information Minister

Shah Farman, the KP Minister of Information says there are approximately 80-100 unconfirmed dead.

"The army is trying hard to bring the situation under control," he says. "The operation is currently underway."

"It is unfortunate that schoolchildren were targeted.We need the country to be united and we need justice," he adds [....]

Taliban Kill Scores in Attack on Pakistani Military School

By SALMAN MASOOD in Islamabad, New York Times, 29 minutes ago

[....] A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in retaliation to the military’s offensive against militant hideouts in the North Waziristan tribal region. Pakistani military carried out an offensive, “Operation Zab-e-Azb,” in June and have claimed to have cleared 90 percent of the restive region that has long been a redoubt of local and foreign militants.

Pervez Khattak, the chief minister of the province, said that as many as 100 teenage students have been killed, while 83 were wounded in the attack. Mr. Khattak said the gunmen were wearing the uniforms of a paramilitary force and were armed with suicide vests.