Himalayan News Service

Patna, March 14:

Ten people were abducted in Bihar, including five children from one village, while in separate incidents a school student was among two people killed in the state — a week after president’s rule was imposed. Armed criminals, in an apparent challenge to Governor Buta Singh’s resolve to restore law and order, abducted five children aged between four to eight years from Chilraon village in Motihari district Sunday, media reports said. A 10-year-old boy was abducted from Vaishkhwa Nankar Tola in east Champaran district.

In other incidents, 55-year-old Rammiyadi Singh Yadav, a railway cabin gateman, was abducted from Kaimur district by unidentified men, while a youth was abducted from Jamui district. An animal trader, Ali Imam, and a 16-year-old girl, Babita, were abducted from Gopalganj district. Fourteen-year-old Vipin Bihari, a school student, was killed by robbers in Jehanabad district’s Saristabad village, while a 22-year-old dalit youth, Arvind Kumar Paswan, was killed by unidentified people in Samastipur’s Erot village.