PM calls for report on attack on nuns

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, APRIL 13. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has directed the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. Ram Prakash Gupta, to send a detailed report on the assault on nuns and a priest in Mathura district two days ago.

The Information Advisor to Prime Minister, Mr. H. K. Dua, said taking note of the reports, Mr. Vajpayee called up Mr. Gupta today and urged him to send details of steps taken by his Government to prevent such incidents.

The Prime Minister expressed concern over the attack. In the second attack on Wednesday, 10 armed persons assaulted two nuns and a priest and ransacked their houses on the St. Teresa school premise on Nandgaon road near Mathura.

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