Sent away to Kathmandu for studying,children flee,reach home

Six children from Arunachal Pradesh who went missing from a monastery at Kathmandu,Nepal a month ago have reached their homes at Bana in East Kameng district.

The children aged between 9 and 16 escaped from the monastery by scaling its walls on the night of February 16,East Kameng SP Tumme Amo,who met the children,said. After escaping they took a bus next morning to Kakrebeta on the Indo-Nepal border and worked in a hotel from February 17 to March 21,he said. They were paid Rs 5,500 by the hotel owner,who they said was kind to them. But when the SP asked them for the hotel owners telephone number the children said they had lost it. They left the hotel and hitch-hiked to Siliguri on March 21. From there they went to Tejpur and from where they took a night bus to their village in Bana.

The SP said the fled when they learnt that they would have to stay at Kathmandu for at least five years. The children were sent to the monastery for free English education.