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GUWAHATI/AIZAWL: A day after a suspected IED blast was carried out inside Cachar district of Assam allegedly by miscreants from Mizoram during an eviction drive, two back-to-back explosions took place on Sunday along the inter-state border on the side of the neighbouring state, an Assam police source said.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has written to his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga about the incidents that occurred a few days after a high-level meeting between top officials of the two states was held in New Delhi. Tension is running high in Khulicherra area of the district, where people from Mizoram have reportedly entered up to 6.5 kilometres inside Assam land a few days ago, following which Assam police along with civil administration carried out an eviction drive.
“Two blast sounds were heard coming from the Mizoram side at 2.40 am and 2.43 am. The CRPF, which is a neutral force deployed at Khulicherra Point-II, has been asked to enquire into the suspected blasts on the Mizoram side,” an Assam police source said. The situation is normal at present, although tension still prevails and Assam police personnel are on alert in the entire border area, he added.
Additional director general of police (border) of Assam, Harmeet Singh, is camping at the spot. On Saturday, an explosion took place targeting a delegation of Assam government officials, including senior police officials who were on a visit to oversee the construction of a road along the border. No casualty was reported in the incident. Initially it was believed to be a grenade attack but the police later suspected that the miscreants used an IED, the source said.
The Mizoram CM, however, retweeted a report which said that no grenade was hurled in the area on Saturday and the sound was of the bursting of a tyre of an excavator. Meanwhile, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he has written to Zoramthanga to settle the border dispute by using satellite mapping of the actual border locations.
“For complete peace, we should hand over the interstate border to central police forces after we fix the border issue. We are building roads within the Constitutional boundary of Assam. We will not take an inch of land from Mizoram,” he added. There has been a border dispute between Assam and Mizoram in that area along with other locations in Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts of the Barak valley.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has written to his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga about the incidents that occurred a few days after a high-level meeting between top officials of the two states was held in New Delhi. Tension is running high in Khulicherra area of the district, where people from Mizoram have reportedly entered up to 6.5 kilometres inside Assam land a few days ago, following which Assam police along with civil administration carried out an eviction drive.
“Two blast sounds were heard coming from the Mizoram side at 2.40 am and 2.43 am. The CRPF, which is a neutral force deployed at Khulicherra Point-II, has been asked to enquire into the suspected blasts on the Mizoram side,” an Assam police source said. The situation is normal at present, although tension still prevails and Assam police personnel are on alert in the entire border area, he added.
Additional director general of police (border) of Assam, Harmeet Singh, is camping at the spot. On Saturday, an explosion took place targeting a delegation of Assam government officials, including senior police officials who were on a visit to oversee the construction of a road along the border. No casualty was reported in the incident. Initially it was believed to be a grenade attack but the police later suspected that the miscreants used an IED, the source said.
The Mizoram CM, however, retweeted a report which said that no grenade was hurled in the area on Saturday and the sound was of the bursting of a tyre of an excavator. Meanwhile, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he has written to Zoramthanga to settle the border dispute by using satellite mapping of the actual border locations.
“For complete peace, we should hand over the interstate border to central police forces after we fix the border issue. We are building roads within the Constitutional boundary of Assam. We will not take an inch of land from Mizoram,” he added. There has been a border dispute between Assam and Mizoram in that area along with other locations in Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts of the Barak valley.
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