Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 22
Election related violence resulted in the death of a youth at Tuli town, Mokokchung on February 22. A clash between supporters of two opposing parties was alleged to be the cause of the death.
In the midst of conflicting versions of the incident making the rounds in social media, information on the sequence of events that resulted in the death was scanty with the Mokokchung police stating that inquiry into the incident was in the preliminary stage.
A police official’s version was limited to a “stone-pelting” episode between “two groups” at around 10:30 am during which one youth was fatally wounded.
The youth, reported to be around 25 years of age, succumbed to head injury on the way to a hospital in Jorhat sometime in the afternoon.
The Mokokchung police said that an FIR was received by the Tuli Police Station subsequent to the incident, which occurred around the 17th Mile area of Tuli town.
The FIR, filed by the NDPP unit of 21 Tuli AC, accused rival NPF supporters of attacking an NDPP vehicle. As per the FIR, one NDPP youth, identified as Longshak Konyak, was “critically injured.” The NDPP, in the FIR, named four persons, who were alleged to have taken part in the attack.
There was also a report of some youths vandalising a school adjacent to the site of the clash. It though could not be ascertained with the police stating that it was in the process of verifying the facts of or relating to the day’s clash between rival supporters.
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