A 16-year-old boy was murdered at Nijgadh-5 in the district on Friday evening. Nishanta Sapkota of Gairitol was found murdered with his throat slit at his neighbour's house, said police. According to Sub-Inspector Kailash Kumar KC at the Area Police Office in Nijgadh, Sapkota, the ninth grader at a local school, was found murdered in the house of Dipak Thapa. Security personnel seized a Chulesi (a sharp-edge kitchen tool) from the incident site. Thapa, his wife and two children were taken under control for investigation. The body was taken to Birgunj-based Narayani Sub-regional Hospital for postmortem निजगढ ५ गैरीटोलका १६ वर्षीय निशान्त सापकोटाको धारिलो हतियारले शुक्रबार साँझ घाँटी रेटी हत्या भएको छ । सार्वजनिक मावि निजगढमा कक्षा ९ मा पढ्दै गरेका सापकोटाको छिमेकी दिपक थापाको घरमा हत्या भएको इलाका प्रहरी कार्यालय निजगढका प्रहरी नायब निरिक्षक कैलाशकुमार केसीले बताए । घटनास्थलबाट प्रहरीले चुलेसी बरामद गरेको छ । घटनाबारे थप अनुसन्धान भइरहेको उनले बताए । प्रहरीले घरधनी थापा परिवारलाई नियन्त्रणमा लिएको छ । विचारी थापा, उनकी श्रीमति भवानी थापा, छोरा विवेक थापा र छोरी दिपिका थापालाई नियन्त्रणमा लिइ अनुसन्धान भइरहेको केसीले बताए । सापकोटाको शव परीक्षणको लागि वीरगन्ज नारायणी उपक्षेत्रीय अस्पतालमा पठाइएको छ ।