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Peshawar school attack: Indians show solidarity with Pakistan following massacre as IndiaWithPakistan trends

The hashtag #IndiaWithPakistan has been trending on Twitter following the attack in Peshawar

Tuesday 16 December 2014 21:25 GMT

A girl prays during a candle lit vigil for the victims of the Taliban attack (EPA/SHAHZAIB AKBER)

Indians have shown compassionate solidarity for their neighbouring country in the wake of horrific massacre in which Taliban gunmen killed more than 140 students and teachers at a Pakistan army-run school.

The hashtag #IndiaWithPakistan has been trending on Twitter following the attack in Peshawar, in northern Pakistan.

Military officials said 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members, were among the dead and many more were injured at the Army Public School.

Now, messages of support have been shared on Twitter from users in neighbouring India.

One Twitter user wrote: “Dear neighbour, with you in your hour of grief. Let humanity prevail over barbarism.”

Another wrote: ”Heart goes out for all those little kids & their parents. Nothing can ever justify this. Sad day for humanity.“

The neighbouring countries have had a fraught and violent political history, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks, when Pakistani terrorists killed over 173 Indians, wounding just over 300.

Today, however, Indian Twitter users put the past behind them to express their sympathies.

#IndiaWithPakistan comes just one day after another online show of solidarity gained mass media attention.

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Women mourn the death of a relative who was killed during the attack on the Army Public School, in Peshawar

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Sirajul Haq (3-R) head of the Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami leads the funeral prayers of two school boys who were killed by Taliban militants at a school run by the Army, in Peshawar

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Schoolchildren take part in a prayer for victims of the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, in the northern Indian city of Mathura

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Indian schoolchildren prepare lighted candles ahead of a vigil in the northern city of Jalandhar, as they pay tribute to slain Pakistani schoolchildren and staff after an attack on an army school in the restive city of Peshawar

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Pakistani journalists in Islamabad attend a vigil for the victims of the attack

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Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium the day after Taliban gunmen stormed the school in Peshawar, Pakistan

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The uncle and cousin of injured student comfort him as he mourns the death of his mother who was a teacher at the school which was attacked by Taliban

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Pakistani schoolgirls pray for victims, who were killed in an attack at the Army-run school in Peshawar, during a memorial ceremony in their school in Hyderabad, Pakistan,

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A Pakistani girl, who was injured in a Taliban attack in a school, is rushed to a hospital in Peshawar

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A man carries a student, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, after he received treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

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Rescue workers and family members carry the coffin of a student, who killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, in Peshawar

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Relatives of a student, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, comfort each other outside Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar

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People carry the casket of a victim of Taliban attack in a school, after receiving it from a local hospital in Peshawar

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A Pakistani woman reacts as she arrives near the site of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar

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A plainclothes security officer escorts students rescued from nearby school during a Taliban attack in Peshawar

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Pakistani volunteers carry a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen, at a local hospital in Peshawar

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A school boy who was injured in a Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

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Hospital staff transport a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A Pakistani woman weeps as she waits at a hospital, where victims of a Taliban attack are being treated in Peshawar

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A hospital security guard helps a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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Schoolchildren stand outside after being rescued from the Army Public School that in under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A Pakistani army soldier takes position on a bunker close to a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A rescue worker waves to make way for an ambulance as it speeded away form a school that was attacked by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A school boy who was injured in a Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

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A school boy who was injured in a Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

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A man talks on a phone, with his arm around a student, outside a military run school that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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Schoolchildren cross a road as they move away from a military run school that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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Pakistani army troops cordon off a road leading to a school under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar

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A school boy who was injured in a Taliban attack receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

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