In Pictures: After Horrific Attack, Pakistan Picks Up The Pieces

By Eyder Peralta / NPR

Published December 17, 2014 at 2:01 AM PST

This story was published more than 9 years ago.

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The uncle and cousin of injured student Mohammad Baqair, center, comfort him as he mourns the death of his mother who was a teacher at the school which was attacked by Taliban, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

Pakistan is picking up the pieces, today, after an attack on a school by Taliban militants left 145 people dead.

It's a heart-wrenching story. We've collected the news in a different post. Here, we'll tell the story visually, but just fair warning: The photographs are representative of the horrific attack, so they're tough to look at:

A Pakistani soldier walks amidst the debris in an army-run school a day after an attack by Taliban militants in Peshawar on Wednesday.

Relatives of injured students react as they arrive at a hospital dealing with the victims of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday.

Pakistan army soldiers stand outside the auditorium of an Army Public School a day after an attack on the school, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday.

Pakistani mourners pray during the funeral of a student following an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar.

Pakistani female activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement light candles for the victims of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar, in Karachi on Tuesday.

People attend a funeral of a student killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday.