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Iraq Police Deny Report of Teachers Killed 1 hour, 17 minutes ago Militants killed two people at elementary schools in a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, the government said. But police in the neighborhood denied any attack occurred. The contradictory accounts could not immediately be reconciled. The National Security Ministry initially said in a statement that militants broke into the Amna and Shaheed Hamdi schools and "slaughtered" a teacher in each one in front of students in the Shaab neighborhood of the capital. But the ministry later said the dead were a school guard and a teacher. It said the guard was stabbed to death by militants in front of students, while the teacher was shot outside the school as he arrived in the morning for classes. The ministry said it was still working to establish details in the attack. Ali al-Obeidi, the director of the police in the Shaab district, said there was no attack against any school in the area. Pupils at elementary schools in Iraq range in age from 6 to 12 years.