Uttar Pradesh: 10 suspended after 6-yr-old student was locked in class

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Ten staffers, including the headmaster, of a government primary school in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district have been suspended after a sleeping class II student was left locked in the classroom, officials said on Saturday.

According to them, six-year-old Prem Prakash had fallen asleep in the classroom of the school on Wednesday. Teachers and school staff, not noticing the child, locked the school and left.

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When the boy woke up around 5 pm, he started crying. Hearing his cries, people in the neighbourhood gathered and broke the door to rescue the child, officials said.

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