Attack on Christian School in Pakistan Leaves 6 Dead

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Attack on Christian School in Pakistan Leaves 6 Dead

Six people were killed and three others injured Monday when gunmen stormed the gates of a Christian boarding school near the Pakistani mountain resort of Murree, police said.

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Six people were killed and three others injured Monday when gunmen stormed the gates of a Christian boarding school near the Pakistani mountain resort of Murree, police said.

The attack at the Murree Christian School, located 35 miles north of Islamabad, was the third against Pakistan's Christian minority since President Pervez Musharraf began cooperating with the U.S.-led war on terror last fall.

A statement by the school, which was founded in 1956 to train the children of missionaries, said there had been "several deaths and injuries" but that none of the 150 students, including 30 Americans, or the mostly British staff was hurt.

All the dead were Pakistanis, including two security guards, a receptionist, a cook, a carpenter and a bystander, police said.

A Filipino woman, two of whose children attend the school, was shot in the hand. The hospital said two other people were wounded.

Local police official Mohammed Maqbool said guards exchanged fire with four or five attackers for about 20 minutes before the attackers fled.

The majority of Pakistan's 140 million people are Muslim. Christians, Hindus and people of other religions make up about 3% of the population.

Source: Agencies

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