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Radio 4,4 mins

Peshawar attack survivors share their story

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Radio 4 Today presenter Mishal Husain speaks to a teacher and a pupil from the school in Peshawar which was attacked by Taliban fighters ending in 132 children being killed along with their teachers. One teachers who was absent from school that day describes hearing what happened to her friend: "My friend was hiding downstairs, hiding for two and a half hours". A second child who was in school that day told Mishal: "I heard the sound of firing and bombs...when the army came I come out from class and run away".

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