Sunday, August 26, 2007
Students strangle boys for a day off, India police say - A.P.
Three boarding-school students are accused of strangling two young boys in the hope that classes would be suspended after the deaths, police said Saturday.
The students, ages 12 and 13, confessed to strangling an 8-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother so their school would close down, said S. Sethi, a policeman in the Jalna district, 200 miles east of Mumbai, also known as Bombay.
"When questioned, the boys said they knew this school gave a holiday when a child had died last year and thought they could get another holiday this year," Sethi said.
Sethi said the three dragged their victims' bodies into an unused restroom.
Authorities found the boys' bodies after their 9-year-old sister reported them missing. Sethi said an autopsy confirmed the children were strangled. [end]
Three boarding-school students are accused of strangling two young boys in the hope that classes would be suspended after the deaths, police said Saturday.
The students, ages 12 and 13, confessed to strangling an 8-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother so their school would close down, said S. Sethi, a policeman in the Jalna district, 200 miles east of Mumbai, also known as Bombay.
"When questioned, the boys said they knew this school gave a holiday when a child had died last year and thought they could get another holiday this year," Sethi said.
Sethi said the three dragged their victims' bodies into an unused restroom.
Authorities found the boys' bodies after their 9-year-old sister reported them missing. Sethi said an autopsy confirmed the children were strangled. [end]
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