MANSEHRA, Nov 13: Cases of runaway students, mostly due to the family circumstances, are on the rise in Mansehra district, a survey shows.

It shows that family affairs such as parents quarrels, divorces, physical punishments and similar causes have forced children to run away from their homes. The figure indicates that such cases are on the rise. Last month two boys and two girls up to the ages of 14 years fled from their houses.

The parents of these children reported to the police that their children had been kidnapped, but after the recovery of the children it was revealed that  they abandoned their homes due to the violence of their parents. They told police that their parents always quarrelled with each other and cases of divorces were in the court.

The SSP Inam Gani and DSP Mohammad Ilyas told newsmen at a Press conference held here on Tuesday that the daughter of a former police constable, Shamsul Aarifeen, fled from the house on Oct 11 but he reported to the police that his 8-year-old daughter, Fakhra Bibi, had been kidnapped.

On Monday she was recovered from a neighbour who had protected her from the violence of her father.