KATHMANDU, Aug 6: A team of Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD), Kathmandu has shot two ‘kidnappers’ dead at Ghyampedanda in Suryabinayak Municipality, Bhaktapur District on Monday afternoon.
"Ajaya Tamang, 24, of Nuwakot district and Gopal Tamang of Sindhupalchowk district were shot dead in an encounter with police", SSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh, chief of MPCD, Kathmandu, told Republica Online.
Police have recovered two used bullets and a mobile set from the incident site which the kidnappers had used to call the mother of the victim for ransom.
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Acting on a tip-off that an 11-year-old Nishant Khadka was kidnapped from Kandaghari area by an unidentified gang, MPCD had deployed a special police squad to nab the criminals.
The kidnappers had asked Rs 4 million in ransom shortly after the child was kidnapped. The dead body of the abducted child was found in an under-construction building near Thimi.
Abducted Nishan Khadka had gone to play with his friend yesterday evening.
His family searched him only late in the evening assuming that he was at his friend’s house. They started searching him only at 9 pm. Just then mobile rang out informing them that the Nishan had been abducted him. It was 9 pm. Then the family reported about it to the police.
