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Pakistani parliamentarian Mussarat Jamshed cheema, Dr. Badar Munir and civil society workers lighting the candles during Candles Light Vigil ceremony in the remembrance of the Martyrs of Army Public School Peshawar attack, organized by Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) at Press Club in Provincial Capital Lahore. Six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants, all of whom were foreign nationals, comprising one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans,entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children,killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren, ranging between eight and eighteen years of age making it the world's fourth deadliest school massacre. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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