Meghalaya Police shot dead 2 armed kidnappers, hostages rescued

Two heavily armed kidnappers were shot dead by Meghalaya police on Thursday in West Garo Hills district during an operation to rescue two persons held hostage by them, police said. The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday at Dibru Hill Reserve Forest, it said.

The kidnappers had held the two persons from Assam, one of them a minor, hostage and demanded Rs 30 lakh from each of them as ransom, district superintendent of police Vivekanand Singh said. Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma mentioned the incident in a Twitter post.