Pakistan hangs four over Peshawar school attack

Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children. The men were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the attack. Taliban militants stormed the Army Public School in the city of […]

Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
The men were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the attack.
Taliban militants stormed the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar on 16 December 2014.
The hangings come just two weeks ahead of the anniversary of the attack, which shocked the nation.
The massacre prompted a crackdown on Islamist militants, the establishment of military courts to try terror suspects and the resumption of capital punishment after a six-year moratorium.