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Security under lens as 15 tribal kids escape from school hostel in night
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|January 30, 2025
All students rescued by police; local administration had no inkling of the incident for 12 hours
PUTTING a question mark on the security measures at government-run facilities in Sundargarh, 15 tribal kids aged between five and 11 years, escaped unnoticed from the remotely-located hostel of Sihidia primary school in Bonai sub-division of the district on Tuesday night.
The students were later rescued by a patrol party of Barkote police in neighbouring Deogarh district from the road through a forest infested with wild animals. The incident has raised serious concerns about the safety and security of children and mismanagement gripping the government-run hostels under the ST & SC Development (SSD) department.
This story is from the January 30, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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