SARBHANG

14 January, 2009 - A group of seven armed men robbed a house in Dolungang village under Dekiling gewog, Sarpang, on January 10 and threatened to kill the inhabitants if they reported the matter to authorities. 

According to police, the seven men, armed with guns, broke into the house of Wangda at around 7 pm and took away cooking utensils and 30 kg of rice when they could not find anything else. Two of the men were masked.

The men claimed to have come from the camps in eastern Nepal and claimed that the land, where Wangda had settled, belonged to their father. “They warned Wangda to vacate the land the next day or face death as a consequence,” said the police source. The men also demanded information on the village volunteers deployed to guard villages in the gewog.