'Direct marise… we did not run'

"Direct marise... they shot right at us," says 23-year-old Sheiwang softly, one of the only two survivors of the Army ambush on a group of eight miners in Oting village in Nagaland's Mon district Saturday evening. With bullet injuries on his elbow and chest, he battles for life in the Assam Medical College and Hospital in Dibrugarh. A few beds away is 30-year-old Yeihwang, who was also in the group of eight. On Tuesday evening, The Indian Express met them at the hospital, shortly before Yeihwang was to be taken for a surgery.