"Delay In Funeral Caused...": Nagaland Police Report Lists Sequence Of Events
NDTV
Officials privy to the probe claim that an unfortunate sequence of events led to a "botched-up operation" that claimed 13 lives.
The Nagaland government in its report to the Ministry of Home Affairs has claimed that a delay in the funeral service of the civilians who were killed in the Mon district resulted in further violence, and in turn led to the killing of seven more people in the state on Sunday.
The villagers were gathering for a funeral after a failed operation on Saturday led to the killing of six locals in the state's Mon district.
Officials privy to the probe claim that an unfortunate sequence of events led to a "botched-up operation" that claimed 13 lives.
"Special Forces are not deployed without clearance from the highest level of the security establishment," an official said, adding now a sequence of events is being put together by various agencies.