Security truck set ablaze
Source: The Sangai Express / Mungchan Zimik
Ukhrul, April 07 2020:
Amid the Nationwide lockdown to check the spread of Covid-19, unidentified miscreants torched a security truck carrying essential commodities and iron rods for construction of barrack quarters for Kamjong police station while on the way toward Kamjong district.
According to sources, the incident occured at around 12 noon today in between Shangching Alungtang and Gamnoum Shingcha village under Shangshak police station at an isolated location of Kamjong district.
Following the report, DIG Themthing Ngashangva and SP of Ukhrul Worngam Ningshen rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation.
The truck was carrying MS bar, potatoes, dal and mineral water for the security personnel stationed at Kamjong district.
Meanwhile local village elders of Shangching informed the police officials that the incident occured at noon time, while the villagers had gone to the paddy fields for plantation catching them unaware.
The villagers assured to extend co-operation to the police personnel for tracing the culprit/s.The SP, Ukhrul put in place necessary security measures and cordoned off the area in a bid to book the culprit/s involved in the incident.