Nepal’s communist rebels abducted 11 unarmed soldiers as they headed home on holiday while at least five more troops were killed in an unrelated explosives mishap at an army barracks, officials said today.

COMMUNIST rebels have freed 90 high school students who were seized from classrooms last week, officials in Nepal yesterday said.

Communist rebels in Nepal have abducted about 90 high schools students from their classrooms in a remote mountain village last week, the army said today.