Patna • Scores of children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said.

"I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, ordering me to reach school on time," said six-year-old Raqib Ansari.

This week, hundreds of children at the school in Bihar, accompanied by their parents, marched to the office of a senior district official, asking for the school to be shifted away from the Muslim graveyard.

About 200 children study in the makeshift school set up several years ago after authorities refused to donate land for a school in Kohari village, 200 km south-west of the state capital, Patna.

Some parents say their children's sleep and health is being affected by dreams of ghosts. "They used to play and study together and finish their lunch while sitting on top of concrete graves but now the ghosts have come to haunt them at night and they are falling ill," said one father.

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