Illegal loggers restrain and assault 2 forestry officials
Illegal loggers restrained and assaulted two forestry officials when they were asked to go to the headquarters for questioning. At the suspects' house, authorities seized many bullets and grenades.
On the morning of January 9, a source from Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province, said that the district police had arrested two suspects for assaulting forestry officials and were expanding the investigation to consolidate the case file and initiate prosecution.
The two arrested subjects are Hoang Van Sau (32 years old), residing in residential group 1, Dak Ha town, Dak Ha district and Nguyen Van Tuong (24 years old), residing in village 3, Ha Mon commune, Dak Ha district, Kon Tum province.
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| Nguyen Van Tuong - 1 of 2 arrested subjects. |
During an urgent search of the residence of these two subjects in Mang Den village, Dak Long commune, Kon Plong district, the police force seized two sharp knives as the murder weapon and discovered that the subjects were hiding three grenades and eight bullets of various types at their residence.
Previously, on January 4, during a patrol in sub-region 429, in Mang Canh commune, 2 officers of Mang Canh 2 forestry farm, Kon Plong Forestry One Member Co., Ltd.Vu Van Thuong and Nguyen Khac Cuong discovered that someone was illegally logging.
While asking the subjects to stop logging and return to the headquarters to work, the forestry officer was suddenly controlled and assaulted by two loggers with weapons.
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| Kon Plong district police seized lbullets and ammoat the place where the group of loggers lived. |
