2014 Peshawar school massacre
On 16 December 2014, a mass shooting occurred in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Six gunmen of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacked the city's Army Public School. The gunmen went into the school and shot school staff and children, killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren. The schoolchildren were between the ages of eight and eighteen. It is the world's fourth deadliest school shooting. The six gunmen were killed by special forces in Pakistan and they rescued 960 people.