Kathmandu, Oct. 29 -- In the third week of April, Suresh Khadka, president of the Non-Resident Nepali Social Club in Oman, received a tearful call from a woman in Kathmandu. "My son has been out of contact for two weeks. Please help find him," she said.

Her son had told his family that he was working in the IT sector in Oman for three months. Within days, Khadka began receiving repeated calls from others reporting that relatives working in IT had gone missing. The victims were also pleading with the Nepali Embassy in Muscat to help locate their family members.

"We were shocked when we received complaints that 10-12 people had gone out of contact," Khadka told the Post. "Nothing like this had been reported in Oman before." After the inve...