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Soldiers Rescue Abducted Students in Nepal
 Soldiers rescued about 600 students who were abducted from their classrooms in western Nepal in a series of bold strikes by communist rebels, army officials said Sunday. The students were rescued during an operation in the mountainous Niskot village, said a statement issued by the Royal Nepalese Army headquarters in the capital, Katmandu. The students were rounded up and taken Friday from village schools in the neighboring Tahanu and Palpa districts, a remote mountainous area 300 miles west of Katmandu, a spokesman at the Royal Nepalese Army headquarters said earlier Sunday. The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to army policy, said authorities had little information on the abductions.Posted by: Fred 2005-05-15 |
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