Assam: Dima Hasao bandh ends, passengers evacuated

SILCHAR: With the 48-hour bandh known as by way of different Dimasa organizations at Dima Hasao district coming to an end at 5am on Sunday, the location in the hill district has partly returned to normalcy.
Authorities controlled to evacuate a complete of 1096 passengers, who've been stranded at New Haflong station for the previous four days, to Silchar. The railway tracks which were broken all the way through the protests remaining week had been repaired and the passengers had been transported by way of a Silchar-Guwahati special passenger educate, said a senior Northeastern Frontier Railway (NFR) reputable.

However, the NFR has determined to droop products and services of all trains on the Lumding-Silchar phase until January 31 owing to issues of security, said the reputable.

Last Thursday, protesters submit a blockade at Maibang station, preventing trains headed in opposition to Guwahati and Silchar and dragging out passengers from within. Tracks had been got rid of at different puts on the Lumding-Silchar phase. Two persons had been killed and six had been injured in the police action that followed.

A district reputable and 19 policemen had been also injured in the clashes all the way through the12-hour bandh known as by way of Jadike Naiso Hosom (JNH), the apex body of the Dimasas, and other organizations.


They had known as the bandh in protest towards the RSS's alleged conspiracy to include the hill district in the proposed Nagalim. More than one thousand passengers had been staying at the New Haflong station for the remaining four days, going through the chilly and an acute shortage of provides. On Saturday, the passengers went on a rampage in the station.


With a semblance of peace returning to the strife-torn district on Sunday and the passengers being evacuated, other folks got here out in their homes, markets had been open and cars had been seen on the roads in Haflong. At Maibang, the place 144 CrPC has been in position since Thursday, the curfew used to be comfortable for 5 hours from 10 am to 3 pm on Sunday, permitting customary motion in the area.


Barak Valley and Hills division commissioner Anwar Uddin Chaudhury on Sunday visited Dima Hasao to take stock of the location. An reputable said leader minister Sarbananda Sonowal has known as the agitators to Dispur to talk about their demands on Monday.


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