ISLAMABAD, 27 March 2007 — Police shot dead a suspected militant recruiter at a boys school in Tank, a town about 100 kilometers from the Afghan border, after hearing he was trying to sign up students for suicide bombings and holy war, police said. One police officer was killed by a hand-grenade during the brief clash.
Three suspected militants turned up at the privately-run Oxford Public School in Tank yesterday morning, local police chief Mumtaz Khan said.
“We heard that they were looking for children to prepare them for jihad and for suicide attacks,” Khan told the Associated Press.
Police said the militants had asked the school’s administrators to assemble the students so they could address them, but ran outside the school grounds when officers arrived at the scene.
