PHOTO GALLERY: Taliban take 500 hostages at Pakistani school, kills 126 people, mostly children

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People gather at a hospital, where victims of a Taliban attack are being treated in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

Schoolchildren cross a road as they move away from a military run school that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

Ambulances drive away from a military run school that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

A soldier escorts schoolchildren after they were rescued from the Army Public School that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

A Pakistani woman weeps as she waits at a hospital, where victims of a Taliban attack are being treated in Peshawar, Pakistan,Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

People carry the casket of a victim of Taliban attack in a school, after receiving it from a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

Rescue workers and family members carry the coffin of a student, who killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, in Peshawar, December 16, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

A Pakistani girl, who was injured in a Taliban attack in a school, is rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

Relatives of a student, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, comfort each other outside Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, December 16, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

A Pakistani student, who was injured in a Taliban attack in a school, is brought to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

A Pakistani man and a woman rush to a hospital treating victims of a Taliban attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 (Photo: AP)

At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.