Three months on: 16 heartwrenching images that we must #NeverForget

Three months have passed since the Taliban ruthlessly slaughtered over 130 children in an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, and the nation still stands firm with the promise to Never Forget.

The school was left in a state of destruction, depicting just how cold-blooded the murder of those children, and some teachers had been. Images show blood-spattered school books, lone shoes drenched in blood, broken chairs, bullet holes in walls. It was a scene of complete and utter heartbreak.

The usual anger and frustration the nation feels in the wake of a terrorist attack was instead permeated with tears. The whole nation mourned for the innocent lives lost on that fateful day.

Here are 16 photographs that we must never forget:

A lone show sits in the hall a day after the attack, surrounded by pools of blood. PHOTO: AFP

Army personnel evacuate children at the forefront of the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS

Blood strewn floors of the auditorium, where most of the children were massacred. PHOTO: REUTERS

A poster made by school children still stands firm in the bullet-stricken wall of the school. PHOTO: AFP

A student of the Army Public School is comforted by members of his family while he cries following the attack on the school. PHOTO: REUTERS

Mothers mourn their deceased children. PHOTO: REUTERS

A student of the school holds on tightly to his family member, while the pair grieves in the wake of the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS

An injured student grimaces as he receives treatment. PHOTO: AFP

A candlight vigil held commemorating the lives that were lost in the horrific attack. PHOTO: AFP

Remembering victims of the Peshawar school massacre. PHOTO: AFP

Mothers mourn the loss of their children, who were ruthlessly slaughtered in the attack. PHOTO: AFP

Tear stricken relatives grieve the loss of their loved ones. PHOTO: REUTERS

A student who was injured in the attack on his school lies in a hospital bed after receiving treatment. PHOTO: AFP

Students pray for those who lost their lives in the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS

Residents gather outside the gates of the school to say a prayer for the children who were killed in the attack. PHOTO: AFP

An image of a student participating in a school event, found in the rubble left behind after the attack. PHOTO: REUTERS