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Kidnapped Andhra engineer released in Assam

Kokrajhar (Assam) Nov 17 (ANI): Krishna Rao, the engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who was abducted on October 16, was released in Karigaon in Kokrajhar District of Assam this morning.

Rao was released at 9.15 a.m. He is safe. Further details are awaited.

Rao was kidnapped by suspected militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) from a road construction site in Kokrajhar district.

Rao works as a project manager with a Hyderabad-based construction company.

The NDFB is among more than two dozen armed groups in northeast which are either fighting for an independent homeland or more political autonomy.

They accuse New Delhi of plundering the region's mineral and forest resources, neglecting the local economy and giving them back nothing in return. (ANI)

Children 'being kidnapped from Sri Lanka refugee camps'

Colombo, May 21 (ANI): Children are reportedly being abducted from refugee camps in Sri Lanka, apparently with the tacit approval of the Rajapaksa government, human rights groups have claimed.The Telegraph quoted The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers as saying that it had received verified reports of child abductions from camps in the main resettlement area of Vavuniya, often by paramilitary Tamil groups.Children as young as 12 are among those taken, the coalition said, suggesting that paramilitaries.....
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