India, Oct. 29 -- Five bike-borne criminals abducted the seven-year-old son of a businessman at gunpoint from his school bus in Bihar's Madhepura on Tuesday morning.

The other children in the school bus have allegedly identified one of the criminals and the police have launched a massive manhunt to trace the child.

"The bus of a private institute in Alamnagar was on the way to the school with 40 children. When it reached near the Karma Chowk, five criminals on two bikes forced the driver to stop the bus and forcibly took away the child," investigating officials said.

The child, a student of upper kindergarten, is the son of Rakesh Sah, a local businessman and resident of Fulaut.

"My son as usual left for school around 6.30am and withi...