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Maoist rebels kidnap 45 schoolboys

KATHMANDU, Tuesday (AFP) Armed Maoist rebels kidnapped 45 boys at a school in southwestern Nepal that stayed open amid a strike called by supporters of the guerrillas, a newspaper reported Monday.The Nepali-language Sandhyakalin ("Dusk") said three gun-wielding Maoists barged into the secondary boys school Saturday at in the remote town of Lekgaon in the Surkhet district and took 45 students away. It said there has since been no sign of the children.Home ministry spokesman Gopendra Bahadur Pandey said he had received no news of the incident.
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