Armed Chemistry Teacher Saves Lives of Students During Taliban School Attack

By Guns ‘n’ Freedom

The Taliban carried out a deadly attack at a Pakistani school. 21 were pronounced dead, but at least one Chemistry teacher saved lives as he fought off the attackers, giving the students time to escape.

Some in the teachers association had objected to arming the staff because “it was not their job to fight off militants”.

According to dawn.com, Syed Hamid Hussain was the assistant professor of chemistry at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. He ordered his students to get down and opened fire on the Taliban attackers.

Students told of how he opened fire on gunmen as they rampaged across campus, giving the young people time to flee before he was cut down in a hail of bullets.

“We saw three terrorists shouting, ‘Allah is great!’ and rushing towards the stairs of our department,” one man told reporters.

“One student jumped out of the classroom through the window. We never saw him get up.” He described seeing Hussain holding a pistol and firing at the attackers.

“Then we saw him fall down and as the terrorists entered the (registrar) office we ran away.”

Geology student Zahoor Ahmed said Hussain had warned him not to leave the building after …Read the Rest

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