Indian army shoots dead 13 civilians
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Indian security forces killed 13 civilians in the northeastern state of Nagaland after firing on a truck and later shooting at a crowd that gathered to protest the attack, police said yesterday.
Troops shot dead six laborers returning to their homes on Saturday afternoon in Mon district, near the Myanmar border, after setting up an ambush for insurgents they believed were operating in the area.
Family members and villagers later went looking for the missing men and confronted the troops after finding the bodies.
鈥淭his is where a confrontation happened between the two sides, and the security personnel fired, killing seven more people,鈥 Nagaland police officer Sandeep M Tamgadge said.
Tamgadge said the situation in the district was 鈥渧ery tense right now,鈥 with nine other civilians wounded in the second incident now being treated in local hospitals.
The Indian army said in a statement one of its soldiers had died during the confrontation, with an unspecified number of troops wounded.
It added soldiers were acting on 鈥渃redible intelligence鈥 that insurgents were operating in the area and had laid an ambush to intercept them.
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