Nimia Henriquez
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Gunmen Take Students Hostage at Pakistan High School
Who: At least 30 students and teachers were taken hostage Monday when gunmen burst into a Pakistan high school, police said
What: Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said there were between 200 and 250 children inside the school at Wali Dar village. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the different accounts.Security forces have surrounded the school and police are negotiating with the gunmen, believed to number five or six, holed up at the village school near the town of Bannu, said district police chief Dar Ali Khattak
When:Monday
Where:PESHAWAR, Pakistan
How:The gunmen eventually freed the health official but took refuge inside the school, and are now demanding safe passage in return for freeing the students and teachers, he said.
An intelligence official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that two gunmen were killed and one policeman was wounded in an exchange of fire during the chase.
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