Candlelight vigil marks fourth anniversary of martyr APS schoolchildren

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the December 2014 Army Public School attack, which killed 144 students and staff members, a candlelight vigil was held in Peshawar on Saturday evening.

Alongside parents and relatives of the martyred students, noted civil society activists Sana Ijaz, Dr Said Alam Mehsud and Fazl Khan also attended the event at the Shuhada APS memorial put up on the premises of the archives library. The parents displayed pictures of the martyred students and lit candles.
Main functions to mark the fourth anniversary of the massacre are being held at the APS and archives library today (Sunday).
“Most parents have displayed the pictures of their martyred sons inside and outside the archives hall.