Tension has gripped parts of northern Assam’s Biswanath area after a policeman was killed while four other including another cop was injured due to a clash between police and an irate mob in the area on Thursday wee hours.
The mob also set on fire a Bolero vehicle belonging to the police after they fired to disperse the agitated crowd.
While a police Havilder was killed in the mob attack, three of the mob has been injured during the police firing. An Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the concerned police station also received serious injuries during the mob attack.
“A police team had gone to Baghmari Nirola Basti village Ginjia police station in the district around 2 am to arrest a thief. However, the thief alerted the whole village after his arrest and the villagers tried to resist the police team to arrest him. The numbers of the villagers swell immediately and they started attacking the policemen with stones and sticks in darkness,” said Superintendent of Police of the Biswanath Police district. M Rai.
“Two of the policemen including the OC were injured badly forcing us to fire and during the firing three of the agitators were injured. Although we rushed the injured cops to the hospital, one of them was declared brought dead,” said Rai.
A total of seven persons from the village have been arrested later for their involvement in inciting the crowd and launching the attack on the police, he said.