Gunfire along Assam-Mizoram border while setting up Assam police outpost

GUWAHATI: After a brief lull for two days, a fresh case of gunfire was reported along the Assam-Mizoram border in Hailakandi district.

At around 2 am on Tuesday, Assam police resorted to gunfire at a group of people suspected from Mizoram said Assam police. The incident happened while Assam police were busy setting up a police outpost.

Talking to InsideNE, Gaurav Upadhyay, Superintendent of Police of Hailakandi said, “Assam was putting a police outpost in the area. During that time, few people approached there with torchlights. It was too dark to see anything clearly. So we had to open fire.”

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Upadhaya said no casualty has been reported from Assam.

“There is no casualty from our side. However, I am not sure about the other side.”

Unconfirmed sources say, a youth from Mizoram has got bullet injury in the incident and has been admitted to a hospital in Bilaipur area along the Assam-Mizoram border.

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