Central team to visit Assam-Mizoram border next week

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Press Trust of India Guwahati
Last Updated : Mar 21 2018 | 5:40 PM IST

A three-member high-level team of the union home ministry will visit the troubled areas along the Assam-Mizoram border early next week to review the situation there and suggest measures to avoid further tension, an official source said.

The Hailkandi-Kolasib area on the inter-state border witnessed violence on February 27 when Mizoram students body Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) tried to construct a rest house on NH 154. The Assam police had resorted to lathicharge to control the protesting students and among others a woman journalist was also injured.

MZP has said the land at Zophai in Kolasib of Mizoram was given to the students union by the widow of the first Mizoram chief minister Ch Chhunga

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First Published: Mar 21 2018 | 5:40 PM IST

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