Three months on: 16 heartwrenching images that we must #NeverForget
Before and after: A group of four friends has been reduced to just two friends.
Three months have passed since the Taliban ruthlessly slaughtered over 130 children in an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, and the nation still stands firm with the promise to Never Forget.
The school was left in a state of destruction, depicting just how cold-blooded the murder of those children, and some teachers had been. Images show blood-spattered school books, lone shoes drenched in blood, broken chairs, bullet holes in walls. It was a scene of complete and utter heartbreak.
The usual anger and frustration the nation feels in the wake of a terrorist attack was instead permeated with tears. The whole nation mourned for the innocent lives lost on that fateful day.
Here are 16 photographs that we must never forget:
A lone show sits in the hall a day after the attack, surrounded by pools of blood. PHOTO: AFP
Army personnel evacuate children at the forefront of the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS
Blood strewn floors of the auditorium, where most of the children were massacred. PHOTO: REUTERS
A poster made by school children still stands firm in the bullet-stricken wall of the school. PHOTO: AFP
A student of the Army Public School is comforted by members of his family while he cries following the attack on the school. PHOTO: REUTERS
Mothers mourn their deceased children. PHOTO: REUTERS
A student of the school holds on tightly to his family member, while the pair grieves in the wake of the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS