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Pak. school raid suspects `blow themselves up'

MUZAFFARABAD (Pakistan) Aug. 6. Three men, suspected of attacking a church school in Pakistan yesterday, killing six people, blew themselves up today after being challenged by police, an official said.

Tahir Quyoom, Deputy Inspector General for Police in the northern city of Muzaffarabad, told Reuters that the body of one of the men, who had killed themselves near a river, had been recovered. Search was on for the other two bodies in the river. ``It is most likely that they are the attackers on the church school,'' said Mr. Quyoom.

Yesterday's attack on the Christian Murree School was seen as being aimed at the foreign community as the pupils were children of missionaries. The attack sent shockwaves through the foreign community

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