{"id":56389,"date":"2019-01-01T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=56389"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:36:33","slug":"engineer-killed-during-hunting-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/01\/01\/engineer-killed-during-hunting-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer dies in shooting incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 31:<\/strong> An assistant engineer of the PWD, Kholie Tath (56), was killed by a gaon burah in the Panjuly forest area near Chessa-I village in Papum Pare district on Sunday.<br \/>\nSources in the police informed that the incident occurred at around 4.30 in the evening, when the GB, identified as Nangbia Niku (48), accidentally shot Tath with a single barrel gun.<br \/>\nThe police have arrested Niku, and his gun has been seized. A murder case has been registered against him at the Banderdewa police station.<br \/>\nThe accused told the police that he shot Tarh unintentionally, having mistaken him for a wild boar.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Nyishi Elite Society (NES) on Monday deeply condoled Tath&#8217;s untimely demise.<br \/>\nTath had joined the PWD as a junior engineer in 1991, and had been promoted to the post of AE in 2013. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.<br \/>\nTath had also served the NES as its secretary in charge of Papum Pare district for three tenures, from 2007 to 2016.<br \/>\n&#8220;His unnatural death is an irreparable loss to the Nyishi community in particular and the state as a whole,&#8221; the NES stated in its condolence message. It prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul, and for strength and solace to the bereaved family.<br \/>\nThe Arunachal Pradesh Junior Engineer&#8217;s Welfare Association (APJEWA) and the Arunachal Pradesh Engineering Service Association also mourned Tath&#8217;s untimely demise. Tath had served as vice president of the APJEWA from 2000 to 2001.<br \/>\nMembers of the APJEWA visited the bereaved family and expressed their condolences and solidarity with the family members in their hour of grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 31: An assistant engineer of the PWD, Kholie Tath (56), was killed by a gaon burah in the Panjuly forest area near Chessa-I village in Papum Pare district on Sunday. Sources in the police informed that the incident occurred at around 4.30 in the evening, when the GB, identified as Nangbia [&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-56389","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\/56389","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=56389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}