A 26-year-old youth was on Monday kidnapped at gunpoint in Bihar's Gaya district, police said.

Sambhu Kesri, 26, was kidnapped when he was on his way from Bodh Gaya to Gaya town.

Police have filed a first information report in this connection and launched an operation to rescue him.

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Earlier, on Monday morning, armed criminals in Purnea district kidnapped Mudit Kumar Jain, a Class IV student of Zila School.

Mudit was on his way to school to participate in the Independence Day function.

On Friday night, two managers of the Alliance Bajaj Company were kidnapped in Patna. The police have not made any headway in that case also.