The report further stated that on finding the dead bodies in the Tata Mobile, under a tarpaulin, violence broke out between the villagers and the Security personnel.
The Army made no attempt to ascertain the identity of the civilians returning from work on a pick-up truck before shooting them in Nagaland's Mon district on Saturday, a joint report by the state's Director General of Police (DGP) T John Longkumer and Commissioner Rovilatuo Mor has said.
The officials said the victims were all unarmed civilians working in coalmines, out of them, six were killed on the spot and two critically injured; State calls of Hornbill festival
Brief Report on the Oting Incident on 4. December, 21121 On the evening of 4th December around 1610 hrs, where 08 (eight) villagers were returning home from coal mining work at Tiru in a Pickup Truck, they were =bushed and killed by Security Forces (reportedly, 21 Para Special Force based in Assam ) at random, apparently without any attempt for identification.