GUWAHATI: The
Indian Army is awaiting word from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on its “hotline message” regarding the suspected abduction of five Arunachal Pradesh youths from near the international border in Upper Subansiri district, Union minister of state for sports Kiren Rijiju tweeted on Sunday.
Engaged as porters and guides by the Army, the youths were reported missing by their families through social media on Friday.
The district administration despatched a police team from the headquarters town of Daporijo to Nacho, about 120km north, for an investigation after a Facebook post by the brother of one of the missing youths was shared on Twitter both by Congress MLA Ninong Ering and BJP MP Tapir Gao.
“We were expecting some information by this evening, but we are yet to get any news from the ground,” a state government official said on Sunday. The five youths were part of a group of seven who carried supplies for the Army through an area without any motorable road and mobile connectivity.
Two members of the group returned home and informed the families of the other five that they had been whisked away by Chinese troops from Sera-7, an Army patrol zone located about 12km further north of Nacho.
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Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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