Militant killed in Pakistan school attack
Afp, Peshawar
A security guard shot dead a Taliban militant when rebels tried to attack the foreign principal of a school in northwest Pakistan, police said yesterday. Four masked men tried to scale the wall of the private school in the town of Bannu on Sunday and the guard opened fire to stop them, local police chief Dar Ali Khattak told AFP. One was killed by the guard and the other three fled. The guard was injured but was in stable condition in hospital. Khattak identified the principal as a New Zealand national, saying that he had been living in Bannu since 1995. Other officials were not able to confirm this. In March, Taliban militants briefly abducted the principal of a school in the northwestern town of Tank after a militant recruiter and a policeman died in a clash.
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