NEW DELHI – At least 11 people, including a legislator from the NationalPeople’s Party, Tirong Aboh, and his son, were killed in a militant attackin Arunachal Pradesh state’s Tirap district in northeastern India, localmedia reports.
According to the report, the legislator’s three-car convoy was attacked onits way from Assam.
Gunmen in military uniforms, reportedly from the National Socialist Councilof Nagaland (NSCN) separatist grouping, shot dead eleven people, includingAboh and his son, and critically wounded another two.
Aboh previously received death threats from the NSCM, the report adds witha reference to police sources.
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A number of high-level state officials strongly condemned the attack andexpressed their condolences to the victims’ families.
Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram are the four northeasternstates on the 1,021-mile borderline between India and Myanmar.
