Police in Nepal are searching for a group of 50 pupils and teachers who were abducted from their school on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu. Police say Maoist terrorists rebels took the children away on Sunday at gunpoint. The Maoists have seized thousands of students and teachers over the years, but correspondents say this is the first abduction so near the capital. In the past, terrorists rebels have made abductees attend political and cultural programmes before freeing them. The terrorists rebels are fighting to replace Nepal's monarchy with a communist state. Nearly 9,050 9,000 people have died in eight years of violence in the kingdom. |