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Article: Pakistan militants kill six in Christian school attack attack on Christian school
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2002
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SIX PEOPLE were killed and three injured when masked gunmen
stormed a Christian missionary school for foreign children north of
Islamabad yesterday.
The latest attack against a "foreign" target will deepen the tense
stand- off between the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, and
the militants who have made Pakistan their battleground.
Murree Christian School, in Gharial village, which is 37 miles
north of Islamabad, has about 150 pupils aged between six and 18. But
none of the children of foreign missionaries, which include British
nationals, was injured.
The pupils, who had just finished a break, were in their
classrooms when the four assailants burst into the school shortly
before ...