15-year-old Dawood Ibrahim is the Boy Who Lived, literally. After Talibani insurgents gunned down 132 school kids in the most gruesome massacre seen in recent times, only one boy survived.

He is Dawood Ibrahim, and he owes his life to getting late for school. According to Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune, Dawood had attended a wedding on Monday evening. On Tuesday morning, he couldn't get up on time, and got late for school. The tardiness appears to have saved his life.

"Dawood is lucky. 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 over 1,100 pupils. Dawood, a member of Pakistan's under-16 judo squad, was in the ninth grade. All his classmates had been killed in the gunfire, and a day after attending a marriage, he spent Tuesday afternoon attending the funerals of his friends.

"Dawood isn't talking to anyone, he isn't talking at all," his brother added. "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."