KATHMANDU, Feb 27 Kyodo Nepalese ...

KATHMANDU, Feb 27 Kyodo

Nepalese soldiers have high hilled a search for 96 tribe abducted by Maoist rebels in the mountainous Rukum district of mid-western Nepal, the guidance said Friday.

The 96 including 36 high institute students and their teachers and parents, were abducted Wednesday in a alien village of the district, about 400 kilometers west of the capital, while returning from a sports competition, said hearth Ministry spokesman Gopendra Bahadur Pandey.

According to reports in Nepalese newspapers, the rebels have lately stepp up abductions of learners and teachers in villages to recruit them into their militia.

any reports say the rebels aim to create a 50000-strong child militia by dint of May this year.

The insurgents could not be reached for make comments [i]or[/i] remarks on Wednesday's abduction.

The rebels are waging an armed insurgency in a bid to abolish the monarchy and place up a communist state in Nepal.

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