A school in Bihar being run in a graveyard!

Kohari (Bihar), July 23: Believe it or not, a makeshift school in Bihar's Kohari Village is perhaps one of its kind being run in a graveyard. Though it has been operational for many years, the students are now complaining of having nightmares of ghosts.

Scores of children at the school are now complaining of having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site.

Nuresha Kaitoon, a student, said: "We play and study in the graveyard. When asleep at home, we get weird dreams. Like the one, in which a man with a beard comes shouting at us and orders us to go to school. When it's dark, we are very scared."

There are about 200 children enrolled in this makeshift school which was set up at the venue after authorities refused to donate land for the school proposed to be opened in this Kohari Village, 125 miles from State capital Patna.

The school is being run in just two rooms that are not spacious enough to accommodate all students.

The graveyard, however, has over 100 tombs and dozens of fresh graves -- most of them shallow -- dug in recent months. It has further crowded the burial ground.

Some of the parents have complained that their children are not taking proper sleep. They are afraid of ghosts at their school and it's affecting their health as well.

Iltaf Hussain, parent of a student, said: "The children play and study at the graveyard. When children realise that they are amidst dead men, they get nightmares and are scared."

Earlier this month, the students, accompanied by their parents visited the District office urging shifting of the school's venue from the graveyard. They have been assured that the efforts to arrange a new piece of land for the school.

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