Monday, June 08, 2009

37 houses torched in NC Hills

HAFLONG, June 8 – At least 37 houses belonging to Dimasa people of Lailing village under Mahur Police station and of Diduki village under Maibang police station were burnt down by miscreants in two separate incidents today.

According to the police two houses at Lailing village some 7 KM from Mahur were burnt down by the miscreants early morning and no casualty was reported so far.

Again at about 1 PM a group of gunmen wearing black dress and helmet came to the Diduki village and fired indiscriminately and torched 35 houses out of 45 houses of the village. It is learnt that the security personals yesterday took away all the licensed guns of the villagers and the miscreants took the advantage of the situation.

Till the filing of this report no report of casualty has been confirmed by the police.

Source: Assam Tribune

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