Nepal rebels free 90 students abducted from classrooms
The students, who were reported to be in good health, returned home on Sunday to the village of Paudiamrai, about 200 miles west of Katmandu, said Durga Pokhrel, the chief administrative officer of Gulmi district. Authorities had been alarmed earlier because the students had been missing for five days. Rebels typically hold abductees only for two or three days.
Officials said the rebels have been abducting large groups of students in remote villages to teach them about their nine-year revolution, aimed at replacing the government with a communist regime. The latest abduction was of about 90 ninth and 10th-grade students last Wednesday, the military said. The village, in a remote and mountainous part of Gumli district, is mostly controlled by the insurgents.
