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One person was killed and several others reportedly injured following a clash between two groups over paddy harvesting in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district along the border with Meghalaya, the police said.
According to media reports, Tension has prevailed on either side of the border since the last one week over harvesting of paddy, with both sides claiming that the land was theirs.
A meeting of the Inter State Border Peace Committee was held on October 6, where it was decided that agricultural and development activities in the area would be suspended till peace was fully restored along the border, officials said.
In the latest episode of violence, a group of people from Meghalaya allegedly began harvesting, which was opposed by the villagers of Tapat under Hamren police station, resulting in a scuffle, police said.
Multiple altercations reportedly broke out between residents of Lapangap village in Meghalaya and Tapat village in Assam in the afternoon, they said.
“In the melee, one person belonging to the Karbi community died,” a senior police officer in Meghalaya told PTI.
The deceased has been identified as 48-year-old Oriwell Timung, a resident of Assam’s Tapat village.
Several people were injured in the clash, including a few security personnel, with police using tear gas shells to disperse the crowd and bring the situation under control, the officials said.
The injured were undergoing treatment in hospital.
