DHAKA: Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday condemned the Peshawar attack and said that she is ‘heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror’.

‘I am heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror,’ Malala said, BBC reported, according to zeenews.com.

‘I condemn these atrocious and cowardly acts and stand united with the government and armed forces of Pakistan whose efforts so far to address this horrific event are commendable.’

17-year-old Malala, who now lives in Britain, became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in her native Pakistan in October 2012 for insisting that girls had a right to an education.

At least 124 students were among some 130 people killed when heavily armed terrorists launched a brazen attack on an army-run school in Pakistan's Peshawar city.

The horrifying attack comes amidst political turmoil in the country and just a day after the hostage crisis at a cafe in Australia’s Sydney city.

Around four to five terrorists first set a vehicle on fire and then stormed the Army Public School building located at Warsik Road in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, ARY news reported.

Television footage showed the school children shocked and in tears. Some of them had blood on their faces. One of the students was carried away on a stretcher while another leaned onto a security personnel who helped him away.

The frightened children recalled the horror.

BDST: 2103 HRS, DEC 16, 2014