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NSCN-K cadre held in Changlang

By The Assam Tribune

Itanagar, Nov 24 (PTI): An NSCN-K cadre has been arrested from Chinsa village in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said today.

Choyong Pangmi (21), who hails from Lahon village in Myanmar, was apprehended by personnel of 25 Assam Rifles under Dah division on Monday on a tip-off, they said. Five kilogram of kani (opium) has also been seized from the possession of the cadre, an Assam Rifles official said.

On being interrogated, the cadre revealed that he was carrying the opium, grown in Myanmar, to Changlang town for further distribution among local drug peddlers.

This is the tenth arrest of NSCN-K cadre by security forces in the district in the past 10 months, the report said.

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