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June 14, 2010 - India

Suspicious Actions Follow Murder of Pastor in Assam

June 14 (Compass Direct News) – A pastor in Assam state was murdered and cremated without being identified last month before family members learned of his death when they saw a photo of his body in a newspaper. The body of Son Englang, 35, was recovered alongside National Highway 37 on May 20, with marks indicating his hands had been tightly bound before he was shot. The pastor from Mallasi village, Karbi Anglong, supported by Gospel for Asia (GFA), had been kidnapped early in the morning of the previous day as he rode his bicycle to the Bokakhat marketplace to buy paint materials for his nearly completed church building. The unknown kidnappers, suspected Hindu extremists, reportedly took the father of two to the jungle to kill him. Local police took his body to a hospital in Golaghat, where he was cremated without being identified after three days, the maximum period that the hospital will hold a body. News of his death reached his family four days after he was killed when they saw a photo of his body published on May 22 in local newspapers reporting him as unidentified. “With great difficulty, his photo could be recognized,” said the Rev. Juby John, Karbi Anglong diocesan secretary of GFA. “It was a semi-decomposed body.” Strangely, police reported Pastor Englang as killed while accompanying three rhinoceros poachers who were shot to death by guards inside Kaziranga National Park, a wildlife sanctuary. Investigations are underway regarding the suspicious claim, resulting in the arrest of a park guard and a local policeman.

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