India, invites 23 children at the birthday of her son and takes them hostage

the BANGKOK - For more than ten hours, an entire village of Uttar Pradesh in india has lived in terror of a terrible tragedy, 23 children between 6 months and 15 years, kept seized weapons in his hand by a man who invited them to the first birthday of his daughter. their release, unharmed, took place after a special team assault to come from the State capital Lucknow, 300 km away, it is able to kill Subhash Batham, 40-year-old accused in the 2011 murder and apparently released on bail despite several other previous, including theft and violence. Batham - who had also been diagnosed as suffering from mental disorders - he was quite drunk, she cried out of feeling responsible for her neighbors in the village for the charges against him in the murder case and took a shoot from the window and the door against the relatives and agents of the local police called to the rescue.

it is Not clear if the wife was aware of his plan, which was to end according to the intentions of the man with the payment of a ransom of $ 140 for each child and his scagionamento from the accusations of murder. But when in the middle of the night her husband was hit and killed the woman tried to escape, mixed with the crowd and was stoned by the inhabitants assembled around the house where the cubs were being threatened with death if the authorities do not agreed to the demands of the sequestratore.

The drama is consumed starting from two in the afternoon in a small village, Kasaria, of the district of Farrukhābād, Uttar Pradesh. Behind the closed door of the house Batham, where there had been organized no party, there were children, even of a few months, many between two and 3 years old and other older children. The first relatives arrived to take the children around 4, but found the door closed and from the inside, the man began to scream and shoot, as well as tossing him a rudimental bomb. Terrified, the families called the police, but the man continued to fire, injuring the two agents attempting to communicate with him.

From here the decision to bring in a special team entry into action shortly before midnight, after a useless negotiation by telephone between the local authorities and Bhatam, convinced it will initially release as a sign of availability, one of the girls held hostage. But the man insisted to ask for a ransom of 10 million rupees to release the other small and the immunity for a crime of which it would be - he said - wrongly accused by other inhabitants of the village. Bhatam had also protested recently for not having obtained from the authority a cabinet for the sick mother.

From here the revenge is evidently programmed by exploiting the birthday of his little girl of one year, remained all the time with the other under the pull of the gun, while his wife - according to the agents - it seemed at some point to take its defenses. From here, the anger of the crowd that recognized her while attempting to escape from the home. Hit with a stick and shots of stone has been released by the police but died as soon as she reached the hospital.

In a country as vast and populated as India, the world health Organization has calculated that a percentage of 7.5% of the population suffers from some form of mental disorder, one-sixth of all the diseases diagnosed and 15 percent compared to the same statistic in the world. The Who predicts that by the end of this year the percentage will rise to 20 percent, also considering that throughout the continent, working a little more than 4000 specialists in mental problems.

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