Nagaland party loses top leader

New Delhi: Isak Chisi Swu, co-founder of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), died here on Tuesday.

"Swu, who along with Thuingaleng Muivah headed the NSCN-IM, died at the Fortis Hospital here at 12.40 p.m.", an aide told IANS. He was in his 80s.

Swu was admitted to the Fortis Hospital in south Delhi on July 5 last year following 'severe kidney ailments and urinary tract infection'.