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Article: Pakistani court sentences three militants to death for fatal shooting at Christian school
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- April 1, 2004
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AP Worldstream
04-01-2004
Dateline: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
A Pakistani court has sentenced three Islamic militants to death and four others to life imprisonment in the fatal shooting of six people at a Christian school in 2002, police said Thursday.
The defendants were arrested weeks after the Aug. 5, 2002, attack at the Murree Christian School in Murree, a resort town about 55 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the capital, Islamabad.
In the assault, masked gunmen burst through the front gates of the school firing Kalashnikov rifles. All of the dead were Pakistanis.
A court in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad, on Wednesday found Saifur-ur-Rahman, Mohammed Abu Bakar and Ata Ullah guilty of ...
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