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2 suspected militant recruiters, police officer killed in gunbattle at Pakistani school By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD Associated Press Writer TANK, Pakistan Police killed two suspected militant recruiters in a gunbattle at a boys school after hearing they were trying to sign up students for suicide bombings and holy war, officials 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, a town in northwestern Pakistan about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Afghan border, on Monday 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. No students were hurt in the clash. The school, which teaches English to boys between the ages of 5 and 17, was closed when a reporter visited later Monday and its administrators could not be reached for comment. 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. One of the militants threw a hand grenade that fatally wounded one police officer, Khan said. The officers opened fire, killing the militant and injuring one of his companions. The third suspect was arrested. The wounded militant died later Monday at a hospital, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to make comments to the media. Police originally reported that five militants were killed, but Khan said that information had been incorrect. Soon after, a grenade attack on a police patrol in Tank wounded three police and seven bystanders. Khan suspected members of the same network were responsible. Grenades were later hurled at a police station and an armored police vehicle, but no one was hurt. Khan described the militants as "local Taliban," a term commonly used to describe militants in the tribal belt along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Tank is on the edge of South Waziristan, a stronghold of militants aligned with the Taliban movement fighting in neighboring Afghanistan and of foreign militants linked with al-Qaida. Officials have suggested that militants from the region were behind a string of suicide attacks earlier this year, including one at a five-star hotel in the capital, Islamabad, but have announced no breakthrough in their investigations. Militant groups also recruit young Pakistani men to fight against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and in some cases, become suicide bombers. Meanwhile, a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in the northwestern city of Peshawar, damaging a bank and nearby shops, an AP reporter at the scene saw. Four people were injured in the explosion, including a former lawmaker who owns a hotel in front of which the bombing occurred, said Iftikhar Khan, a senior Peshawar police officer. ____ Associated Press writer Riaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report. 070327 004925 Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. 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