DHAKA: Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children.

The men were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the attack.

Taliban militants stormed the Army Public School in the north-western city of Peshawar on 16 December 2014.

The hangings come just two weeks ahead of the anniversary of the attack, which shocked the nation.

The massacre prompted a crackdown on Islamist militants, the establishment of military courts to try terror suspects and the resumption of capital punishment after a six-year moratorium.

These executions are timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the Peshawar school massacre.

The trials were held in a military court, and proceedings were shrouded in secrecy, reports the BBC.

BDST: 2114 HRS, DEC 02, 2015
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