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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

TNN | Last updated on - Aug 29, 2018, 13:01 IST
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

More than 155 kids were killed in the dastardly terrorist attacks on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. Everyone is in a state of shock, including Bollywood celebrities, who are expressing their sorrow over all the bloodshed, on social network. Salman Khan too expressed his grief on Twitter and posted, "To save 1 innocent life is to save entire humanity , to kill 1 innocent life is like killing entire humanity .The most heinous crime is killing an innocent." [sic] He further wrote, "Even wen at war u r nt supposed to harm children, women, old people, religious places and agriculture .Vo hum mai se nahi jiske hath aur zubaan se log mehfooz nahi ." [sic]
Read on to know what other celebs had to say about the incident...
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

According to a report in PTI, Amitabh Bachchan took to his blog to express his sorrow over this brutal killing of innocent kids. His blog read, "Going about our daily work is ridden with the thoughts of those that perished, those that shall never see their homes again, those who went to educate themselves, to learn, to understand, to live... and they all ended up a heap of... It is difficult even to talk about it. But life goes on as does the wheel of fortune, moving endlessly on its axis of all what life and the heavens purported to bless us with but when you look back, it is time for you to look forward, the horror does not need any accreditation. It does not need attention or sympathy, right now it needs only prayer and thoughts with those little ones." [sic]
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Aamir Khan: "Just heard about the innocent children being killed in Peshawar. I'm devastated..."

Celina Jaitly: "As a mother of twins my self I cannot fathom what must be going on in the hearts n minds of the parents of Peshawar massacre! Where is God?"

Rahul Bose: "The Nobel Peace Prize awardees. Children in coffins. Two lasting images of 2014."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Akshay Kumar: "Feeling numb hearing about d terrorist attack on innocent children in #Peshawar! May God give strength to the victims families. RIP humanity"

Vaani Kapoor: "One of the most gruesome attack..devastating day for humanity. My prayers are with the kids and parents."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Juhi Chawla: "The Peshawar tragedy is heartbreaking ..!"

Bejoy Nambiar: "The horrific description of the Peshawar attack just makes you question everything that we feel is right with the world."

Nimrat Kaur: "Don't have the courage to put the news on ... Reading about the children of Peshawar is heart wrenching enough . No words at all ..."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Sania Mirza: "Please God..hav mercy on the kids and their families..this is heart breaking and painful..What has humanity come to :("

Manoj Bajpayee: "Can't think of words which will explain the pain one feels on the death of 130 kids of peshawar.my heart goes out to the parents."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Priyanka Chopra: "I send out a prayer. pls God..in whichever form and whatever name. Pls teach your children to value human life.I pray for peace. Watching tv n can't stop crying. Cant believe how religion can be used for such a horrid act of violence. No God says it's ok to kill!N kids?!"
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Sonakshi Sinha: "Oh god! Whats happening in this world. Times like these make you question humanity. Everyone please pray for whats happening in #Peshawar."

Karan Johar: "The Peshawar killing is just heartbreaking...the death of humanity on every level....helplessness is the only feeling...."

Riteish Deshmukh: "Death of Humanity - Wake up World - it's not their issue -it's our issue - we need to stand up."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Arjun Kapoor: "Just reading about Peshawar never felt more helpless...My prayers with everyone in Peshawar all the children and parents... Sad sad day."

Farhan Akhtar: "My heart has broken.. The world failed those children in Peshawar ... It's a sad sad day."

Sonu Sood: "How can anyone kill 100 innocent students? Can't be humans. My heart goes to the parents of those innocent Angels."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Javed Akhtar: "104 innocent children are killed by Talibans In Peshawar . A black day for humanity."


Madhur Bhandarkar: "Killing innocent children has to be the final nail in humanity's coffin. Fundamentalism has found its limit today.Dastardly."


Ashwin Mushran: "And the death toll rises to 126 in #Peshawar. If the world does not stop this evil we don't have worry about the ozone layer. We'll all die."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Sonam Kapoor: "what a senseless unspeakable act. the world is filled with monsters."

Aditi Rao Hydari: "what's happening? Terrorising people is religious? Killing people is pleasing god? This carnage is insane, inhuman. #Livid #Weepy"

Resul Pookutty‏: "More than 100 children is believed to have been killed by mindless barbarians...Hamara Khuda Ithina chotte nahi ho sakta..."
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Sophie Choudry‏: "Innocent kids are victims & yet again religion the sick excuse. Heart-broken & ashamed that this is the world we live in!"

Taapsee Pannu‏: "Ok now it's getting scarier day by day. First Australia, now Pakistan. What next??? I fear to even think"

Raveena Tandon: "The horror the pain ! Oh god you are being questioned now as the world sheds tears for those innocent souls! Lil Angels of the future!"
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Peshawar school attacks: Bollywood condemns the bloodshed

Vishal Dadlani: "No God will ever forgive the Taliban for this. They're forever condemned, and I hope they don't even get burials when they die."

Shibani Kashyap: "Very sad.. hoping and praying for a stop to such harmful incidences"

Disclaimer: All tweets are sourced from Twitter and are written as is.

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