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12 railwaymen kidnapped

By Our Staff Correspondent

AGARTALA, NOV. 17. Twelve staff members of the North-Eastern Frontier Railway (NF) have been kidnapped from Paizarbari area of Dhalai district. This has triggered massive repercussions in the State. This is the second abduction of NF Railway staff. Earlier twenty of them were kidnapped in two different attacks from the same Dhalai district.

Senior police officials of the district and the DIG Agartala rushed to the spot and launched massive search operations to rescue the kidnapped railway staff and arrest the culprits.

It is learnt that a group of heavily armed NLFT ultras raided Paizarbari area, about four and a half km away from Ambassa police station area, at around 8-30 a.m. today. The staff and other labourers were engaged in the construction work at a site of the railway.

The armed ultras gathered all the twelve people at gun point and forcibly took them away.

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