Meghalaya: Encounter on with terrorists who killled woman for resisting rape

June 05, 2014 09:08

An encounter is on in Meghalaya with Garo militants who killed a woman for resisting rape.

A 35-year-old woman was shot dead by suspected Garo National Liberation Army militants sparking outrage.

The woman was at home with her husband and five children when four to five armed militants of the GNLA entered their house around 6 pm on Tuesday. They locked up her husband and five children inside the house and pulled out the woman, police said.

She was first assaulted and molested. When she resisted, they shot her with automatic assault rifles from point blank range blowing her head in almost two pieces, Inspector General of Police (operations) GHP Raju said.

Follow the latest updates on @RediffTweets

« Back to LIVE

TOP STORIES

SC asks EC to look into EVM glitch favouring BJP in mock polls in Kerala

The Election Commission of India said that reports of EVM showing one extra vote during a mock poll were false.

CSK's Conway out of IPL 2024; Gleeson named replacement

Devon Conway had suffered a fractured left thumb during the T20I series against Australia in February and had undergone surgery for the same.

Long jumper Sreeshankar out of Paris Olympics with injury

Murali Sreeshankar has been ruled out of Paris Olympics after sustaining a knee injury during training.

IPL 2024: Injured Maxwell unlikely to play against KKR

Glenn Maxwell pulled out of RCB's previous match against Sunrisers Hyderabad stating that 'physical and mental toll probably just wore me down a little bit'.

'Great hatred for word M': Owaisi on BJP's manifesto

'They have not mentioned the word minorities. They say scholarships will be given to marginalised communities'