Police examine school attack suspect's body
Police were today examining the body of a man blown up by a grenade in Pakistan to see if he was one of the gunmen who attacked a Christian school.
Six people were killed at Murree School, 35 miles north of Islamabad, on Monday. None of the 150 pupils was hurt.
No group claimed responsibility for the raid, but suspicion fell on Islamic extremists enraged by President Pervez Musharraf’s support for the US led war on terrorism after September 11.
Police recovered grenades, knives and bullets abandoned by the gunmen, who fled over a fence at the back of the school.
‘‘It would appear that they had every intention of staying a lot longer and doing a lot more damage,’’ school director Russell Morton said.
Police in Kashmir said yesterday that they had stopped three men near Dherkot, 25 miles northeast of Murree, for a routine check.
Officers overpowered one of the men when he resisted efforts to search him. One of his companions threatened to explode a grenade if the other was not released.
Police agreed to release them and the three began running towards a nearby river. Suddenly, the grenade exploded, blasting two of the men into the river. The body of the third was recovered on the riverbank.
‘‘These are the same attackers,’’ said officer Haji Syed Haseeb Hussain, referring to the Murree gunmen.
