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Pak forces kill key planner of Peshawar school massacre

Saddam had facilitated the seven attackers who had stormed the Peshawar school

A Pakistan family member comforts a mother who lost her son in last Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school, in Peshawar
Press Trust of India Peshawar
Last Updated : Dec 26 2014 | 4:44 PM IST
A senior Taliban commander, believed to be one of the planners behind the Peshawar school massacre, has been killed by the security forces in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Agency.

"Saddam had been killed in the Gundi area of Jamrud by the security forces in an operation yesterday. One of his accomplices has been captured alive," Peshawar Political Agent of Khyber Agency Shahab Ali Shah told reporters.

A member of the Tariq Gedar group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Saddam had facilitated the seven attackers, who had attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16 and killed 150 people, mostly children.

Saddam had also planned the killing of 11 security personnel and eight scouts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last year.

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First Published: Dec 26 2014 | 2:40 PM IST

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