Arunachal, Feb 4: Security forces are yet to trace the two construction workers, who were abducted by NSCN-KYA militants from Pumao in Arunachal Pradesh’s Longding district on Tuesday.
According to police, three construction workers were abducted by the militants, but later one of them was released.
“Bangphua Wangpan, the resident of Langkhao village from Longding district, was released by the militants,” said a police source.
The two missing persons are Hiren Koch, an excavator operator and Ramasish Mahato from Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.
Hiren Koch’s family has appealed to the NSCN-KYA to released him unharmed.
“We don’t know what they have done to my son. For the last four years, he and his brother Suraj Koch have been working in Longding. On January 31, at around 7 pm, he spoke to his wife over the phone. We appeal to the Assam government and Arunachal government to take the matter seriously and take steps to release them,” said Reshme Rekha Koch, mother of Hiren Koch.
Meanwhile, Security forces have launched a massive search operation in Arunachal-Nagaland border to trace the whereabouts of the abductees.
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NSCN ultras kidnap 3 construction workers in Arunachal:
Suspected insurgents of a faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) abducted three workers of a construction firm in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh but later released one of them, a police official said on Wednesday.
The labourers were engaged in the construction of the Pumao-Langkhow road being carried out by a local construction company, the district’s Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) B Tangjang said.
Personnel of the police and Assam Rifles have launched a combing operation along the Nagaland-Myanmar border near the district in search of the two kidnapped workers, Tangjang said.
Around five to six cadres belonging to the banned NSCN (K-YA) came to the labourers camp located between Longkhaw and Pumao villages under Pumao circle on Monday night and abducted three workers.
The next day, the outfit released one of them, identified as Banphua Wangpan, a resident of Longkhaw village of the district. He reported the matter to the authorities.
