News No.137/2015:
Wednesday, September 02, 2015
SEVEN houses were
searched and two Jumma villagers tortured during the second day of military
operation in Ramgrah yesterday.
According to local
sources, a group of army personnel from Sindukchari zone raided Hachuk Para and
Kumari Para at 1pm as part of a massive military operation now undergoing in
Matiranga, Manikchari, Ramgarh and Laxmichari Upazilas involving several
hundred soldiers.
The army men tortured
two Jummas – Shanta Tripura, 42, who was grazing his cows in Kumari Para and
Ajit Tripura, 16, a class nine student of Nakapa Junior High School in Hachuk
Para.
Later the soldiers
searched seven houses in the two villages for what they said were illegal
firearms.
The houses searched
belong to Purna Kumar Tripura, 50, son of late Kunja Tripura; Bhota Tripura,
46, son of late Puchrai Tripura; Chandra Kumar Tripura, 52, son of late
Kamalaram Tripura; Roshi Kumar Tripura, 26, son of late Lazarai Tripura and
Sumon Tripura, 18, son of Roti Kumar Tripura – all of Hachuk Para village and
Ramani Kumar Tripura, 40, son of Kamalarai Tripura and Nanda Bhushan Tripura, 25,
son of late Poti Rai Tripura of Kumari Para.
A deep sense of fear
and anxiety is prevailing among the Jumma inhabitants because of the ongoing
military operation.
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