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Students and teachers. and according to pakistani media, over 100 of the dead were students and now pakistan just has to figure out how to go forward and it says it's going to continue its military offensive and to find those responsible. >> and, richard, it's almost incredible, you know, to think of the devastation that this has caused. you said apparently these gunmen were in there for several hours. it seems like a long time before there was some response. >> there was a response quite quickly, but this is a -- not just a single school house but a school compound with four different buildin...

In north waziristan. north waziristan is the home address of the pakistani taliban. it is an area that has been under the the taliban's control for over a decade. and since june so throughout the spring and summer the pakistani military has been attacking this area relentlessly. and we hadn't seen much of a response from the pakistani taliban. there have been threats. there have been promises of reprisal. and i think we are now seeing that reprisal. about six militants, according to the taliban, stormed the school compound. they arrived at the school in the morning when there was an assembly g...

Potentially explosive devices on the school compound what more can you tell us. yes we go it's an update from the pull this in some toughie of all it's thirteen minutes ago the police chief there are confirmed that there have been explosive devices found in the high school and in the surrounding areas and now the main priority for the authorities is to secure the school and to evacuate old students and stouffer's and they seem to be very concerned they warn the public you know not to peek and they think not to touch anything because they assume that they could be possible explosive off the cam...

Get inside the school compound, you have to be let inside a door. the fact that somebody walked in with a gun, they say, is hard to believe. yet as we know, it did happen. we're talking about some 575 students at north park elementary school, shep, that is broken down 30% hispanic, 30% white, 30% white. most of them are students in need. we should point out police have not said anything about these two students who were taken away and believed to be in critical condition being shot. that has not come up. we believe they were shot, but nor the hospital, nor the police have confirmed that. we sh...