Blast rekindles Assam-Mizoram border tension
The Hindu
Trouble started brewing on October 26 over a controversial bridge construction
The arrest of a Mizo security person following a low-intensity blast has rekindled the Assam-Mizoram border tension.
Officials in southern Assam’s Hailakandi district said the police cordoned off the Bhaicherra area near the inter-State border after an explosion at 1:30 a.m. on October 29. An Indian Reserve Battalion jawan from Mizoram identified as Laldintluanga was found loitering at the spot.
“He could not explain his presence. We arrested him and sent him to judicial custody,” Hailakandi’s SP Gaurav Upadhyay told The Hindu on Saturday.
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