Fresh Assam, Mizoram Standoff Flares Month After Deadly Clashes

Khulichara is about 12 km from Lailapur where last month's clash left six Assam policemen dead and over 45 injured in an two-hours long gunbattle.

A month after the fierce clashes between Assam and Mizoram Police over a border dispute, a fresh standoff has been brewing since Thursday at Khulichara, another border area close to the site of last month's violence. The fresh dispute erupted after authorities from Mizoram objected to the construction of a road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana by Assam. Assam, meanwhile, alleges locals from the other side of the state border have stirred the trouble. According to the Assam Police, a group of armed men from the Mizoram side tried to stop construction workers who were building the road in Khulichara village along the inter-state border in the Dholai subdivision of southern Assam's Cachar district. Khulichara is about 12 km from Lailapur where last month's clash left six Assam policemen dead and over 45 injured in an two-hours long gunbattle while Chief Ministers of the two states bitterly sparred on Twitter.