Incident Reports

Forest guards and smugglers open fire at each other

2016-08-28

Madhes, Parsa, Sakhuwa Prasauni

Two groups - forest guard and smugglers - clashed and exchanged fire on Sunday night when a team of forest guards on patrol at Madhuban Mathawal Forest Area spotted the latter chopping trees. The armed forest guard at the Area Forest Office, Badhaniyar opened three rounds of fire in retaliation after the smugglers shot at them, according to Keshavraj Ghimire, Chief District Officer (CDO) of Parsa District. There were no human casualties reported, added CDO Ghimire. CDO Ghimire shared that security personnel recovered four sets of trunk of the Saal trees two set of saws and four sets of bicycles from the smugglers. The seized items were brought to the Area Forest office at Badhanihar for further investigation, police said. RSS
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Twosided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Group Clash
Weapons Small arms
Primary Cause Related to organized crime and illegal trade (drugs, arms, non-gendered human trafficking, protection racket, gang violence, etc.)
Actor 1 - Number of people 4
Actor 1 - Affiliations Criminal
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 3
Actor 2 - Affiliation Security forces (unspecified)
Actor 2 - Youth unknown

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