By KUNA,
Islamabad : Local Taliban militants Wednesday besieged a school and took nearly a hundred students as hostages, security officials said.
Taliban militants barged into a school in a small village of Mohmand tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, and took as hostages nearly one hundred students, they said.
Government forces have cordoned off the area and the two sides exchanged fire that killed one militant and wounded three others including a soldier.
It was not immediately clear why the militants have besieged the school.