Amish families gathered today to bury four of the five girls gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse.

Two relatives of the man who attacked Amish school girls said they were not sexually abused by him 20 years ago, as he had claimed in a phone call to his wife during the siege.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Ed Rendell yesterday offered Amish elders state police protection from an extremist church group that plans to demonstrate at the funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell today said he will ask Amish elders if they want state police protection from a Kansas church group that plans to demonstrate at funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

A lorry driver carrying three guns stormed an Amish school and opened fire on a dozen girls, killing at least three people before committing suicide.

A TRUCK driver walked into an Amish school yesterday and sent the boys outside before holding the girls hostage and shooting them.