Assam-Meghalaya border row Regional committees discuss demarcation
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Six people – five civilians and an Assamese forest guard – were killed in a confrontation on Tuesday.
The chief minister said that the police could have exercised restrained in the case.
A group of villagers from Meghalaya vandalised and burnt down a forest office in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district, soon after six people were killed in violence that occurred in a disputed area along the border between the two states, officials claimed on Wednesday.
The Assam government refuted Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma's claim that Assam police had entered Meghalaya and resorted to firing.