Agartala: One man was killed and five others were injured when a car bomb exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Baghdad, on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. to oppose the decision to rehabilitate thousands of people. tribal refugees.
These refugees fled to neighboring Mizoram 23 years ago after ethnic strife in the state.
Police said the 45-year-old Srikanta Das was shot dead and five others seriously injured when police had to shoot at the rioting crowd that subsequently attacked the security forces in Panisagar in the North Tripura district.
A large contingent of security forces, including the Tripura state guns, led by senior police officers, has been mobilized in Panisagar and Kanchanpur subdivisions (in the North Tripura district) to deal with the explosive situation, ‘a police officer told IANS said on condition of anonymity.
Normal life was paralyzed with tension on Saturday for the sixth day in northern Tripura’s Kanchanpur subdivision. The situation remained explosive when the Joint Movement Committee called for an indefinite halt to the decision of Tripura and the central government to rehabilitate about 35,000 Reang tribal refugees, who were rehabilitated in October 1997 following neighboring Mizoram following the ethnic conflict , to rehabilitate.
The agitations have expanded since Thursday in the subdivisions and districts, as the state administrations have taken no steps to suppress the situation and have not held talks with the protesters.❐
