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Movement of trucks hit by NH blockade

By The Assam Tribune

AIZAWL, Oct 30 - Movement of trucks between Assam and Mizoram was likely to resume on Friday after the Centre brokered a high-level meeting between the two States for allowing the stranded vehicles to resume their journey, an official statement said here.

However, the Deputy Commissioner of Kolasib district in Mizoram H Lalthlangliana said that no truck had entered the State from Assam till 6 pm.

The issue of road bloackade put up by locals at Lailapur in Assam on National Highway was discussed at a virtual meeting of the Chief Secretaries of Mizoram and Assam which was presided over by Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Thursday, the statement said.

Reports said that the locals of Lailapur and surrounding villages in Assam�s Cachar district had erected the blockade on NH, linking the two States because Mizoram had �refused� to withdraw its forces from the border areas.

Bhalla had urged both the Chief Secretaries to withdraw forces from their respective border areas to restore peace among the people living there.

Several people were injured in a clash that occurred between the people of the two States, during which several makeshift huts were torched on October 17.

The Kolasib district Deputy Commissioner had said that a large number of Vairengte residents had assembled when some people from Assam, armed with sticks and dao, hurled stones at a group near an auto-rickshaw stand on the outskirts of the border village on October 17. � PTI

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