Tripura shuts Internet, SMS service for 48 hrs

December 10, 2019 19:12

The government of Tripura has suspended mobile internet and SMS services in the state for 48 hours after state police found that rumors being mongered about ethnic clashes between tribals and non-tribals in Manu Kanchanpur areas.

Chief Minister Biplab Deb said the ban was not a fallout of anti-Citizenship Amendment Bill protests in the state, asserting that tribal areas are protected from the CAB.

Earlier in the day, agitators participating in a bandh called by the North East Students' Organisation set a market, where shops were owned mostly by non-tribals, on fire in Dhalai district, police said.

However, no one was injured in the incident and the blaze at Manughat market was doused, a senior police officer said.

"Security forces have been deployed in the market but the incident has created fear among the non-tribals who owned most of the shops," the officer said.

The bandh threw normal life out of gear in Dhalai, West Tripura and Khowai districts with residents remaining indoors while attendance in offices was thin, he said.

Train services in the entire state came to a complete halt and vehicular movement was affected, the officer said. -- ANI/PTI

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