Nepal

Three children, who had been missing from Butwal for the past three days, have been found in India.

The children, who had left home for school on Friday, were found in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Sagar Paudel, 15, Samir Lamsal,15, and Pradeep Panthi,14, of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City-11 had gone missing when they were bound to school, said the families.

Families filed a police report with the Area Police Office, Butwal after they did not come in contact for long.

Father of Samir, one of the disappeared children, is in India, and all of them are in contact with him according to an investigation, said Thag Bahadur KC, chief of the Area Police Office.

"We have been informed that the missing children have been in contact with their families. Further information about how the children reached India will be revealed after further investigations once the children reach Nepal," he said.

Lamsal and Paudel are ninth graders at Nabin Industrial Kadar Bahadur Secondary School in Butwal-11, while Panthi is the eighth-grader at Naharpur Secondary School. -- RSS