JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Gunmen on motorbikes shot at a high school in Indonesia's war-torn Aceh province Monday, killing two men and sending hundreds of students running for cover, witnesses said.
Police said they had no motive for the shooting in the industrial town of Lhokseumawe, and did not release the names of the victims. No one else was injured.
Guerrillas have been fighting since 1976 for the independence of resource-rich Aceh, about 1,200 miles northwest of Jakarta. At least 12,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians.
Representatives of the government and the rebel Free Aceh Movement held peace talks in Geneva last week, but they failed to stem the violence. A top rebel spokesman was killed soon after the talks concluded.
Aceh is one of several regions in sprawling Indonesia plagued by separatist, racial or religious violence.
East Timor, a former Indonesian province where hundreds died at the hands of Indonesian troops and anti-independence militias following a 1999 vote for independence, became a sovereign nation Monday.
Meanwhile, a Muslim militant group blamed for religious violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands denied Monday that its surrender of some of its weapons was part of a deal to secure the freedom of its jailed leader.
The Laskar Jihad group handed over hundreds of homemade bombs, dozens of pistols and an MK3 machine gun to military officials Sunday in a ceremony outside a mosque in Maluku's provincial capital, Ambon.
The hardline Laskar Jihad organization has been accused of inciting Muslim-Christian violence that has killed about 9,000 people in the Maluku islands since 1999.