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Tension on border, two Assam youths injured

Two Assam youths were reportedly injured in the incident. The vehicular movement was suspended between the two states temporarily on Tuesday following the incident.

GUWAHATI:

Tension is brewing at Umlapher in West Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Meghalaya border after miscreants from Meghalaya allegedly beat up two persons when they were returning from Shillong on Monday night.

Two Assam youths were reportedly injured in the incident. The vehicular movement was suspended between the two states temporarily on Tuesday following the incident.

According to reports, some miscreants mercilessly beat up two persons – Sanjay Gurung and John Hmar — at War Basti causing tension among the people living in Sabuda, Umlapher, Habura and several other villages in the hill district bordering Meghalaya.

Following the incident, Assam Police has taken special measures so that the peaceful situation would not be disrupted in the border villages.

This followed another incident that took place at Umlapher on the night of April 1 in which several persons from Meghalaya, including a leader of  Khasi Students Union (KSU), were injured, when they entered Assam and started a quarrel with a liquor vendor.

“A group of 12 youths from Meghalaya started quarrelling with a liquor vendor over price, which led to a fight among the two groups. The youths returned to Meghalaya but came back in the night with a group of 60 people to attack the liquor vendor. However, the policemen at the spot managed to control the situation,” a police official said.

On the next day, the police conducted a raid in the border area and evicted all the liquor shops. “We have been keeping a strict vigil on the situation so that peaceful situation will not be disrupted,” he added.

Earlier on Saturday last, two women were injured, one of them critically, when a mob from Meghalaya attacked the villagers of Salbari.

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