Leader of 2014 Massacre at Pakistani school killed in U.S. airstrike

A Taliban commander responsible for the 2014 attack on a Pakistani school in which more than 130 children died has been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, United States and Pakistani officials said.

 

 

A Taliban commander responsible for the 2014 attack on a Pakistani school in which more than 130 children died has been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, United States and Pakistani officials said.

The commander, Omar Mansour, also known as Omar Naray, was killed in an American airstrike on Saturday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, said Peter Cook, the Pentagon press secretary, according to The Associated Press.

Mansour was the leader of the Taliban faction Tariq Gidar and was known as one of Pakistan’s most brutal militants.

The Pakistani Taliban made no official comment. One senior member of the group said the movement had decided not to comment on the death until a successor is chosen.