{"id":167799,"date":"2021-07-30T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=167799"},"modified":"2021-07-30T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:47:07","slug":"2-nscn-k-ya-militants-shot-dead-by-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/30\/2-nscn-k-ya-militants-shot-dead-by-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"2 NSCN (K-YA) militants shot dead by security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 29 Jul:<\/strong> Security forces gunned down two hardcore militants of the NSCN (K-YA), a faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang, during a joint operation in Tirap district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A cache of arms and ammunition was seized after the encounter, which took place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following inputs regarding the presence of active operatives of the NSCN (K-YA) in Kottam forest area, a joint team of the district police and the Khonsa battalion of the Assam Rifles found out the exact location of their hideout after an arduous 10-hour search.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the personnel of the security forces ordered the militants to surrender, they fired at the team, a report from Tirap district said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The security forces returned fire, killing two hardcore militants of the Yung Aung faction of the NSCN (K).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two automatic assault rifles, besides an MQ series rifle, an M-16 rifle, two country-made guns, one 9 mm pistol, one Chinese hand grenade, ammunition, Rs 11,200 in cash, and other warlike stores were recovered from the spot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of about 10 rebels of the outfit, led by self-styled captain Rocky Thapa, were active in the area for the past one month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were extorting money from the villagers of Kollam, Lomlo, Kolagaon and Lamsa in Khonsa and Deomali circles of the district, the report said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also threatened a civil contractor engaged in construction of roads in Deomali circle to pay extortion money, it said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 29 Jul: Security forces gunned down two hardcore militants of the NSCN (K-YA), a faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang, during a joint operation in Tirap district. A cache of arms and ammunition was seized after the encounter, which took place on Wednesday. Following inputs regarding the presence of active operatives of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}