: Nagaland: Day after 13 civilians killed by security forces, fresh violence erupts in Mon district #IndiaNEWS A day after 13 civilians were killed in Nagaland’s Mon district as security forces opened

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Nagaland: Day after 13 civilians killed by security forces, fresh violence erupts in Mon district #IndiaNEWS
A day after 13 civilians were killed in Nagaland’s Mon district as security forces opened fire on a group of labourers mistaking them for insurgents, fresh violence erupted on Sunday.One person was killed and another injured on Sunday afternoon, after locals entered a camp of the Assam Rifles to protest against Saturday’s killings, the state’s Principal Secretary (home) Abhijit Sinha told Scroll.in. The personnel of Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force that operates under the Indian Army, fired on the protestors, who allegedly tried to demolish some of the structures in the camp, Sinha added.Soldiers had ambushed a vehicle on Saturday evening, killing six labourers returning to their village from a coal mine in the Tiru area.“They [the labourers] were ambushed by one para unit of Army at Oting,� Sinha told Scroll.in. “The Army had input that some cadres of underground groups were moving there. Unfortunately they ended up firing and ambushing the vehicle in which the daily wage labourers were returning to their village.�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. The soldiers even fired at him, Konyak said, despite his vehicle’s bonnet...Read more

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