Patna, Oct. 24: The three school students who went missing from the state capital last week have been found — one in Amritsar and two in Allahabad.

Police today said 13-year-old Shivam Pratap, a Class VIII student of Don Bosco School and an avid cricket follower, had left home to watch one of the matches of the ongoing India-England ODI series. The police rescued him from Allahabad railway station last night and he is being brought to Patna.

On the other hand, the police traced Vibhakar and Jai Prakash, the two boarders of St Dominic Savio’s High School hostel, who went missing last Saturday, to Amritsar and brought them back to the city yesterday. They had gone to Amritsar to find jobs and support their families.

“A police team, sent to Amritsar, brought back Vibhakar, a Class V student, and Jai Prakash, a Class X student, yesterday. During interrogation, the duo told the police that they had fled to find employment. We checked their academic records and found they were good in studies. They were desperate for jobs because they wanted to help their parents financially,” Patna city west superintendent of police Upendra Sharma told The Telegraph.

Vibhakar and Jai Prakash were roommates in the hostel. Last Saturday, their friends saw them going out in the evening. But the two did not return.

Shivam, a resident of Hanuman Nagar under Patrakar Nagar police station, had gone missing ever since he got down from his school bus on way to the institution near Chiriyatand Bridge.

The police had earlier suspected that he could be in Ranchi as he had told his friends that he would be going to the Jharkhand capital for cricket training.

“Shivam was found at the Allahabad railway station and is being brought to the city. What we have gathered so far is that Shivam was desperate to watch any of the five India-England ODI matches,” an officer at Patrakar Nagar police station said.

“His father had given him Rs 2,700 for paying tuition fees. But the boy used the money to run away. On the day Shivam went missing, he got down from the school bus near Chiriyatand Bridge, changed his school uniform, wore a tracksuit and told his friends that he would go to Ranchi,” the officer added.