Militants on Thursday took 300 school children hostage in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported.
Reports said the militants took control of a school in Upper Dir district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and took the students hostage.
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The militants and local people then started firing at one another, the channel said.
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