: Nagaland killings: Army fired with ‘intention to murder, injure’ civilians, police allege in FIR #IndiaNEWS The 21 Para Special Force “blankly opened fire� on civilians in Nagaland’s Mon

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Nagaland killings: Army fired with ‘intention to murder, injure’ civilians, police allege in FIR #IndiaNEWS
The 21 Para Special Force “blankly opened fireâ€? on civilians in Nagaland’s Mon district, the state police alleged in its suo motu first information report filed against the Indian Army unit on Sunday, NDTV reported. The FIR was filed after 14 civilians were killed in separate incidents of firing by the security forces on Saturday and Sunday.On Saturday evening, the security forces mistakenly opened fire at a pick-up van carrying coal miners from the Tiru area to their village Oting in Mon district, killing six on board. They mistook the group of workers for insurgents.After the ambush, local residents set vehicles of the security forces on fire. As the soldiers fled, they shot dead more civilians, alleged Nyawang Konyak, the president of the Mon district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the ensuing chaos, seven more civilians and one soldier died.The violence spilled over into Sunday afternoon after locals entered a camp of the Assam Rifles to protest against Saturday’s killing. At least one more person was killed after security forces fired back at protestors.In its FIR, the Nagaland Police alleged that the “intentionâ€? of security forces was to “murder and injure civilianp Ë•H’T‹š[YžHHÙ™šXÙˆ[‹XÚ™ÙHÙˆ^š]ÛXÙHÝ][Û‹XšHÜÙZHÙ^›ËYYˆ8 ']ÈÈ™K‹‹”™XY[Ü™H

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