The anti-government guerrillas have abducted more than 300
students from various schools in Okaldhunga district in eastern
Nepal, according to a local police office statement released
Wednesday.
The guerrillas have abducted students of lower secondary and
secondary level in as many as 18 schools in Okaldhunga district,
some 100 km east of Kathmandu, in the last couple of days, said the
statement.
Teachers and guardians said the guerrillas forcefully took away
students of grade 8, 9 and 10, saying they would be returned after
participating in a four-day training program on ideological
education at an undisclosed location.
Guardians and school administrations have expressed worries
about the safety of the students who were abducted when their
examinations were going on.
The abduction has terrorized the entire education sector in the
region while students have stopped going to schools for fear of
being abducted, the police added.
(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2006)
