Student survivors of a Taliban attack returned to school on Monday, about a month after 150 of their classmates and teachers were killed by Islamic extremists.
Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, has been outfitted with a new airport-style security gate and is now guarded armed troops following the Dec. 16 attack in which seven Taliban militants fired machine guns into the assembly hall. The men then went classroom to classroom, killing students and teachers, the Telegraph reports.
Across the country, schools were put on an extended winter break as authorities implemented plans for increase security and harsher measures, including the death penalty to combat insurgents.
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