Several people gathered at Calgary City Hall on Tuesday night to remember those killed in a horrifying assault on a school in Pakistan.
At least 141 people were killed after seven armed men entered a school and open fired.
More than 130 of the victims were students. One of the victims was just two years old.
The organizer of the rally, Saima Jamal, found out about the massacre on Tuesday morning. She says the candlelight vigil was about people coming together to share each other’s pain.
“To see my friends and my family suffering like that and to think this happened to little kids, little innocent kids who had nothing to do with this war, who had nothing to do with anything other than they just wanted to get educated they just went to school to get an education and this is what happens.”
According to the Pakistani military, the attack was carried out by seven Taliban attackers, wearing bomb vests. The gunmen went from classroom to classroom shooting the children and staff where they found them. Three days of mourning have been declared.
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