Shillong, Aug 8 : An Assam-based trader was shot dead and another kidnapped by heavily armed militants at a marketplace in Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills district early today, official sources said. The 68-year old trader from Krishnoi in Assam was shot dead by four militants inside his shop at Rari bazaar near the Assam-Meghalaya border and another was kidnapped, they said. The sources said that the trader had received an extortion demand from the Garo Hills-based Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) which he did not pay.
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