Bihar School Firing

Prompt action by police and bystanders may have saved the lives of children on a school bus in Bihar's Gopalganj.

A five-year-old boy today brought a gun to his school in Bihar and shot another student, police said. The incident took place at the St Joan Boarding School in Bihar's Supaul district.

A five-year-old boy in Bihar reached his school with a gun today and opened fire on another child, leaving the Class 3 student badly injured, police said.

He slashed hard at her neck and then kept stabbing her until she died. Not done yet, he threw petrol on the woman and set her on fire, said police. She was 29.

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Tuesday came under heavy fire from BJP for the alleged reduction in "Hindu holidays" proposed for government schools across the state for next year.

A Class 3 student was set on fire by a Class 4 student at a private residential school in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Saturday, following a minor quarrel between them, police said. The victim, who received burns, is critical.

Prompt action by police and bystanders may have saved the lives of children on a school bus in Bihar's Gopalganj.

A five-year-old boy today brought a gun to his school in Bihar and shot another student, police said. The incident took place at the St Joan Boarding School in Bihar's Supaul district.

A five-year-old boy in Bihar reached his school with a gun today and opened fire on another child, leaving the Class 3 student badly injured, police said.

He slashed hard at her neck and then kept stabbing her until she died. Not done yet, he threw petrol on the woman and set her on fire, said police. She was 29.

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Tuesday came under heavy fire from BJP for the alleged reduction in "Hindu holidays" proposed for government schools across the state for next year.

A Class 3 student was set on fire by a Class 4 student at a private residential school in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Saturday, following a minor quarrel between them, police said. The victim, who received burns, is critical.