Assam lifts travel restrictions to Meghalaya, days after border violence killed six

Updated : Nov 29, 2022 22:14
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PTI

Six days after border clashes, Assam lifted travel restrictions to Meghalaya on Sunday. 

However, police patrolling and escort is being provided at vulnerable areas. 

Violence had broken out at Mukroh village near the disputed border between the two states in West Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday after a truck allegedly laden with illegally felled timber was intercepted by forest guards from Assam.

Also read|Police vehicles torched, petrol bombs hurled in fresh violence in Shillong

Six people - five tribal villagers from Meghalaya and a forest guard from Assam were killed in the clashes.

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