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Chinese PLA Hand Over 5 Missing Arunachal Pradesh Youth

Chinese PLA Hand Over 5 Missing Arunachal Pradesh Youth

Five youngster from Arunachal Pradesh were handed back to India on Saturday by the Chinese authorities, Indian Army officials confirmed.

The matter was first brought to the attention of authorities when family members of the missing men claimed in social media posts that their kin had been taken by the Chinese Army while hunting near the border. In fact, two of the men who were part of the same group had managed to escape and immediately alert local police in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district.

“Indian Army took over all five individuals at Kibithu on 12 September, 2020 after completing all necessary formalities,” Lieutenant Colonel Harsh Wardhan Pande, Defence PRO in a release.

“The individuals will now be quarantined for 14 days as per Covid-19 protocol and thereafter be handed over to their family members,” it added.

“All the 5 Indian youths from Arunachal Pradesh who were received at Kibithu by our Army from PLA are fit and fine. However, they will be quarantined for a specified period”, Union sports minister and BJP MP from Arunachal West Kiren Rijiju tweeted.

“Indian Army has always been proactive in tracing the lost locals and helping them return home. Three such incidents took place in the current year in Upper Subansiri and West Siang district including the latest one,” the release said.

“All such individuals were brought back home safely after consistent efforts and coordination by Indian Army in the past,” it added.

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