Attack on school van kills one in NWFP

Gunmen attacked a mini van transporting children to school in troubled North West Frontier Province on Friday, killing its driver and leaving two students wounded, police said. Five other students were kidnapped by the attackers who ambushed the vehicle on the periphery of Hangu, a remote town adjoining the lawless tribal region along the Afghan border.
"The driver was fatally shot while two students also received bullet injuries but they survived," police officer Ashfaq Khan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on the phone. Law enforcers started a search after cordoning off the area around the site of the attack. Paramilitary troops also joined the hunt for the kidnapped children. "We are still to establish the motive behind the kidnapping," Khan said.