Manipur remains cut off

By Our Correspondent

IMPHAL, AUG.2 As Manipur remains cut off from the rest of the country for the sixth day today,stocks of food and other items have alarmingly depleted, according to official sources.

Meanwhile the Naga organisations have resorted to blockade of the national highways one after another so that buses and trucks are unable to come to Manipur through these lifelines. Reports say that buses with hundreds of passengers and trucks carrying essential items are stranded at Moreh, Jiribam and many other places in Assam. Despite the appeal by the Governor, Mr.Ved Prakash Marwah, to the Naga groups to call off the highway blockade, there is no response. Meanwhile the Government is under attack for its failure to provide security along the two national highways. Tourists and traders who have been stranded at Moreh since July 28 are not escorted back to Pallel, just 60 km away.

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