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| 2007-03-27 |
| TANK: A police officer and a militant leader were killed and 12 injured in three incidents on Monday. Local administration chief Syed Mohsin Shah said that a shootout erupted when police stopped a group of Taliban from entering the Oxford Public School, AFP reported. “They wanted to go inside in a bid to convince the students to join them for jihad. Police knew their designs and stopped them,” Shah said. Meanwhile, AP quoted the police as saying that the militants had asked the school’s administrators to assemble students so they could address them, but ran outside when officers arrived at the scene. One of the militants, Ahsan Burki, threw a grenade that killed SHO Hassan Khan. The police retaliated, killing Burki and injuring one of his companions. The third suspect was arrested. The school had asked for protection after militants visited schools in the area to recruit students, residents said. Shortly after the gunbattle, unidentified men hurled a grenade at a Separately, four people including an ANP office bearer were injured when a bomb fixed on a motorcycle exploded in Peshawar’s cantonment area. |
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