{"id":1342,"date":"2014-12-23T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/mottoo-a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:09:31","slug":"mottoo-a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/mottoo-a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1342 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/mottoo-a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays\/attachment\/1343\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngq3jybUYV1r5mwq7o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mottoo.tumblr.com\/post\/105430629018\/a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays-attack-on\">mottoo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>A teenager who was injured in Tuesday\u2019s attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar owes his life to his teacher, who tried to shield her students from the Taliban gunmen that opened fire on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Irfanullah, 15, told\u00a0<\/span><em>Newsweek<\/em><span>\u00a0he would likely be dead if his teacher, 24-year-old Afsha Ahmed, hadn\u2019t intervened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cShe seemed to understand what was going on before we did because she immediately stood up and prevented the terrorists from targeting us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tearful Irfanullah, Ahmed told the terrorists that she would not allow them to shoot her students. \u201cShe was so brave,\u201d he said. \u201cHer last words to the terrorists were: \u2018You must kill me first because I will not see my students\u2019 bodies lying in front of me,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Irfanullah says the Taliban didn\u2019t seem to care about anything she said and immediately threw something on her body. \u201cThe next thing we knew, she was on fire,\u201d he said. \u201cEven while burning, she shouted at us to run away and find refuge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teenager says he still feels guilty for abandoning his teacher, despite knowing he could have done nothing. \u201cI feel so selfish for running away instead of trying to find a way to save her,\u201d he said. \u201cShe is my hero \u2026 she was like a superwoman,\u201d said Irfanullah. \u201cWho will teach us now?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mottoo: A teenager who was injured in Tuesday\u2019s attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar owes his life to his teacher, who tried to shield her students from the Taliban gunmen that opened fire on them. Irfanullah, 15, told\u00a0Newsweek\u00a0he would likely be dead if his teacher, 24-year-old Afsha Ahmed, hadn\u2019t intervened. \u00a0\u201cShe seemed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/mottoo-a-teenager-who-was-injured-in-tuesdays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}