PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) ? Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three children and the driver, a police official said.
Fifteen children were wounded, he said. The children on the bus were around nine years old.
"First a rocket was fired but it didn't hit. Then gunmen opened fire," said Sahibzada Sajjad, deputy superintendent of police in Peshawar, where Taliban militants, who are close to al Qaeda, often carry out attacks.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Pakistan's Taliban, also allies of militants in neighboring Afghanistan, are waging a campaign of mostly suicide bombings in a bid to topple the U.S.-backed government.
Al Qaeda have suffered several setbacks since U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in Pakistan on May 2. But the Pakistani Taliban, who vowed to avenge his death, have carried out a series of attacks.
Another policeman said the shooting occurred near the Khyber Model School, which employed the bus.
(Reporting by Augustine Anthony in Islamabad and Faris Ali in Peshawar; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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