ANI clarifies on Rohingya report

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 15 (MExN): The Nagaland bureau of the Asian News International (ANI) today clarified that it’s news article titled ‘Rohingyas likely to attack Nagaland: Intel sources’ was “manufactured in Delhi solely based on the fake viral news in social media without even counsulting the Nagaland bureau but came with Kohima dateline.” A press note from the ANI Nagaland bureau informed that it came to know of the report only after The Morung Express highlighted the report as being based on social media rumours. “ANI office has apologized saying that they have done the story based on BSF sources,” informed the press statement.