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Attacks Hit Pakistan School, Christian Hospital
Friday, October 4, 2002
(8:22 AM)
Reuters News Service

Police also said three policemen were arrested near the capital Islamabad Friday and accused of smuggling a large consignment of arms, including 10 rockets, a launcher, 10 hand grenades and a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Reuters
Two men on a motorcycle threw a grenade at a Christian missionary hospital in northwest Pakistan today but no one was hurt, witnesses said.

There was a separate attack in eastern Pakistan, where gunmen fired on a girls' school in Lahore, injuring one student.

The school was owned by a local politician running in next week's parliamentary elections, but police said it was unclear if the attack was politically motivated.

In the northwestern town of Bannu, police said both men escaped after the grenade attack on the hospital, but they called the act "ineffective."
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