Khuram Parvez / Reuters
Following the Taliban’s slaughter of at least 130 people at a school in Pakistan, a student described how he survived the attack. After being shot in both of his legs, 16-year-old Salman told AFP how he played dead. “I folded my tie and pushed it into my mouth so that I wouldn’t scream. The man with big boots kept on looking for students and pumping bullets into their bodies. I lay as still as I could and closed my eyes, waiting to get shot again,” he said. The Taliban appears to have clearly sought out children as targets. Salman noted that one of them screamed: “There are so many children beneath the benches, go and get them!” Salman said he then crawled to another room, where he saw the school’s office administrator dead and on fire. “She was sitting on the chair with blood dripping from her body as she burned,” he said. “My body was shivering. I felt as though it was death that was approaching me.”