KATHMANDU: Twenty-five children who were being taken to Dehradun, India through the Gaddachauki border in Kanchanpur reportedly to study the Tibetan language have been rescued from the border area.
Tek Bahadur Rawat, Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office in Kanchanpur, informed that the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) returned 25 children under 10 years old to Nepal.
“The SSB checkpoint in Banbasa has sent the children from Simkot, Humla back to Nepal. Those children are now at the District Police Office in Gaddachauki, and further inquiries are being made,” he said.
Panchabir Budha was escorting children from Simkot Rural Municipality-8 in Humla to India. The Kanchanpur police are investigating the incident further. (RSS)
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