They had gone to the local Someshwar Community Forest on Thursday morning to collect grass and had gone missing in the forest. We lost way in the forest and so could not return home, said Bishnu Maya Poudel, one of the missing.[break]
The locals and the police had suspected that they were detained by the Indian Seema Surakshya Bal SSB, the border security force. Nine among the missing were women.
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