 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. |