Guwahati, July 5
Three persons were killed and a large number of houses torched when armed miscreants from Nagaland swooped down on two bordering villages in Sivasagar district of Assam in the wee hours today.
Assam Police ADG Dipak Pathak said two persons were shot dead and another person died in a bomb blast when armed raiders from Nagaland torched houses and attacked villagers at Sonapur, Charaibari and Borhola Nepali Basti, under Geleky police station, Sivasagar district around 3.15 am today.
Sarabat Ali and Minbahadur Chetri from Sonapur and Borhola Nepali Basti, respectively, were gunned down while Kamal Chetri from Charaibari was killed in a land mine explosion that was planted by raiders.
According to Assam police, there were about 30-35 armed raiders who ran amuck in the three bordering villages in Assam for at least two hours. The miscreants also damaged tea plantation in about 10-bigha area in a private small tea garden ‘Dhekiajuri’, near the inter-state boundary.
Senior civil and police officials from Assam’s Sivasagar district rushed to the spot immediately after the incident. They held a meeting with their counterparts from Mukokchung district in Nagaland to bring the situation under control.
No statement was forthcoming from Nagaland government over the incident, which has been construed as a section of Naga miscreants’ attempt to terrorise villagers on the Assam side of the inter-state boundary.
The boundary dispute between Assam and Nagaland dates back to over four decades and
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