there, the vast majority of them children. cnn is getting a firsthand look at the devastation inside the school. nic robertson visited. we warn you, though, as you can imagine, this video and this report extremely disturbing. >> reporter: this is where the taliban got into the school. they cut the barbed wire the top of the wall, scaled it using bamboo wires. another team got in just down here. and then they took off towards the main buildings. they burst into here, the main auditorium. they split into two teams. it was full of children here taking classes. >> translator: they shot me as soon as i came in. we tried to run. i was shot in my shoulder. the people who came, they had no sense of humanity in them. >> reporter: so many of the children afraid, trying to hide underneath these benches. the class was going on. a brigadier was giving a lesson