Pakistani Gunmen Hold 32 People In Paki High School Hostage

Original reports stated 300+ people, then it was 200 people. Now it has been whittled down to 32 people that Pakistani gunmen took hostage before turning themselves over to "tribal negotiators".

Gunmen briefly seized control of a high school in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said, holding more than two dozen students and teachers hostage before surrendering to tribal negotiators in exchange for safe passage from the area. The six gunmen gave themselves up after a five-hour standoff, with security forces ringing the school, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said. One negotiator, former lawmaker Shar Abdul Aziz, said in return for releasing the captives and giving up their weapons, the gunmen received safe passage and left. Local police declined to comment on that report. The gunmen barged into the school near the town of Bannu after a chase and firefight with police that killed a seventh gunman and wounded a policeman. The chase began after they abducted the health chief of a neighboring district and two of his relatives, who were later freed, also unharmed.