Peshawar school attack: Meet the boy who slept in and survived

Peshawar school attack: Meet the boy who slept in and survived

Peshawar school attack: Meet the boy who slept in and survived

Did a faulty alarm clock save the life of 15-year-old Dawood Ibrahim? As Pakistan reeled from deadly bombing and Peshawar went about the grim task of burying it dead youngsters, reports emerged of how one pupil at the Army Public School and College survived because he slept in. A report in Express Tribune newspaper said that Dawood had attended a wedding on Monday evening with other members of his family. On Tuesday morning, he failed to wake up and as a result he was late getting ready for school.  


. He missed school today because we attended a wedding last night, and he overslept," Dawood's brother, Sufyan, told the newspaper. "It was fate." The Army Public School and College has a roster of more than 1,100 pupils. Dawood, a member of Pakistan's under-16 judo squad, was in the ninth grade. His brother said that all his classmates had been killed and that the teenager had spent Tuesday afternoon attending the funerals of his friends. READ ALSO: 10 devastating images of Peshawar carnage  "


  "He is into judo and is a tough child but he is showing no emotion at all right now. He just attended funerals the entire day. No one from his class survived. Every single one of them was killed." Among the death toll of 142 was the school's principal, Tahira Qazi. As emergency response teams continued to search the debris, her body was discovered overnight among the ruins of the school. Also killed was 14-year ,


Taliban release images of Peshawar killers "They finished in minutes what I had lived my whole life for, my son," his father, Akhtar Hussain, told Associated Press, as he buried the youngster. Hussain, a labourer who had worked for many years in Dubai to send money back to his family, wailed as he banged his head against his fists.