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 10 years ago.

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.

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