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Indian Express
28-04-2025
- Indian Express
3 cadres of Myanmar-based outfit killed after Assam man's abduction in Arunachal Pradesh
A 25-year-old man from Assam is missing after he and another construction worker were abducted from Arunachal Pradesh's Longding district on Friday. Three cadres of a militant group were killed on Sunday by security forces in an operation linked to the abduction. According to a Ministry of Defence statement, the two construction workers were abducted on the night of April 25 from Pangchao, around 28 kilometres from the Longding district headquarters. Longding Superintendent of Police Dekio Gumja told The Indian Express that they were working there under a contractor to construct a local school. The contractor told police they had not received a ransom demand, but police suspect the incident is an extortion-related abduction carried out by the Myanmar-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang-Yung Aung) or NSCN (KYA). Longding is situated along the porous Indo-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh, and is also close to border areas in neighbouring Nagaland. According to a statement by a Ministry of Defence spokesperson, 'Based on specific intelligence, troops of the Indian Army and the Assam Rifles launched a joint operation in the general area Pangchao on April 27. Contact was established, and in the ensuing firefight, three cadres of the NSCN (KYA) group were neutralised. Four automatic weapons, ammunition and other war-like stores were also recovered in the operation.' While one of the workers, Wangpana, a local from the area, was rescued in the operation, the other, who police have identified as 25-year-old Giyasudin from Assam's Sribhumi district, remains missing. 'The gunfight took place on Sunday morning, and now search operations are taking place. Weapons from the HK series were retrieved from the three bodies, but there were no IDs on them, and they have not yet been identified. The whereabouts of the second worker is not yet known,' said SP Gumja. Longding is situated along the porous Indo-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh, and is also close to border areas in neighbouring Nagaland. It is one of the three districts of the state where the Disturbed Areas notification of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is in place, and has seen several instances of kidnapping and extortion by rebel groups.
The Print
28-04-2025
- Politics
- The Print
Three NSCN-KYA rebels killed in Arunachal, abducted worker rescued
Based on specific intelligence inputs, troops of the Indian Army, Assam Rifles, and district police launched a massive joint operation in the Pangchao area on Sunday. Two construction workers were kidnapped on April 25 from the Pangchao area in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh, according to a statement issued by Nagaland-based defence spokesman Lt Col Amit Shukla. Itanagar, Apr 28 (PTI) An abducted construction worker was rescued and three militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (KYA) faction were killed during a fierce gun battle between security forces and extremists in Arunachal Pradesh's Longding district, a defence spokesman said on Monday. 'Contact was established and, in the ensuing firefight, three cadres of the NSCN (KYA) group were neutralised,' Lt Col Shukla said in the statement. Four automatic weapons, ammunition, and other war-like materials were recovered from the area, he said. One of the abducted construction workers was successfully rescued during the operation, and a search operation is ongoing to locate the second missing worker, the spokesman added. Longding Superintendent of Police Dekio Gumja Tamin confirmed the incident. He said that three bodies of suspected militants were retrieved from the site and later taken to Mon district in Nagaland by the Nagaland Police, as the encounter site lies between Longwa in Nagaland and Pongchau in Arunachal Pradesh. PTI UPL UPL RG This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
Time of India
27-04-2025
- Time of India
3 NSCN(KYA) cadres killed in Arunachal gunfight
Guwahati: Three cadres of proscribed NSCN (KYA) were killed in an operation by security forces in Arunachal Pradesh 's Longding district bordering Myanmar on Sunday, a defence spokesperson said. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A security source mentioned that the operation continued for several hours and was still ongoing till Sunday afternoon, with more forces being sent to the site where the encounter took place in a remote location of the district. "Retrieval of the bodies is ongoing. There have been three casualties," Longding SP Dekio Gumja told TOI. The site where the gunfight occurred is a highly dense forest area and far from a motorable road, police said. The Eastern Command of the Army on its 'X' handle stated on Sunday night that two construction workers were kidnapped on Friday night from the general area of Pangchao, in Longding district. Acting on specific information, troops of the Army and Assam Rifles launched a joint operation in Pangchao on Sunday. "Wherein the contact was established and in the ensuing firefight, three cadres of NSCN (KYA) group were neutralised," a defence spokesperson said. He added that four automatic weapons, ammunition, and war-like stores were also recovered in the operation. "One construction worker was rescued in the operation, and the search for the second is in progress," he said. CM Pema Khandu recently insisted on tightening vigil in southeastern Arunachal districts where AFSPA is in force, especially after the Pahalgam terror attack. According to sources, based on intelligence inputs, security forces launched the operation. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Sources said that a fierce exchange of gunfire ensued between the security forces and insurgents, leading to the death of the three cadres at the site of the encounter. Some arms and ammunition were also recovered. The search was on to nab other cadres, even as at least a couple more might have sustained injuries. The three eastern districts of Arunachal — Tirap, Changlang, and Longding (TCL) — known as the TCL region, share a border with Myanmar and are used by Myanmar-based militant groups to create disturbances in the northeast. Khandu had said that these districts will soon see the deployment of a senior police officer taking command to oversee the sensitive areas in these southeastern districts of Arunachal.
