DHAKA: France and Germany have condemned the Taleban attack on a school in Pakistan on Tuesday.

French president Francois Hollande condemned what he described as a ‘vile’ attack that has killed at least 130 people, the majority children.

‘No words can express the ignominy of such an attack against children in their school,’ Hollande said in a statement, reports The Straits Times.

German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement he condemned the ‘criminal attack in the strongest terms’.

BDST: 1906 HRS, DEC 16, 2014