Manipur: Four Drivers from Assam Assaulted, Looted In Imphal West

IMPHAL: The police reported on Thursday that four  truck drivers from Assam who had been attacked near an oil pump in the Imphal West area on Wednesday night had been driving huge trucks carrying crucial supplies to Imphal for the starving people of this mendicant state.

Around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, five so-called neighbourhood thugs severely beat four drivers before robbing them of five mobile phones. 

When Saikhom Babudhon, President of the Manipur Drivers' Association (MDA), reported the episode at the Patsoi police station on Thursday, this came to light. One of the victim drivers, Md. Islam, claimed that he and three other drivers had been travelling on the NH-37 in their heavily loaded trucks from Silchar to Imphal. 

Around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, five masked miscreants who claimed to be local thugs attacked them while they were trying to get some rest and eat their evening meals. They stole their cell phones and beat them near the Moidangpok Korouhanba Oil Pump parking lot, which is underneath the Patsoi police station.

Islam lamented that before they left the location, they threw all the food on the ground. Sanjoy Thokchom, the general secretary of the MDA, appealed to the state's residents not to harass drivers, especially those who operate large vehicles on interstate highways. The police stated that efforts are being made to apprehend individuals responsible for the crime in the interim.

The Manipur government is considering establishment of a temporary shelter house in the border town of Moreh to accommodate individuals who escaped conflict-torn Myanmar. There will be 5,000 immigrants housed there. 

Three state ministers, Letpao Haokip, Awangbow Newmai, and Th. Basanta Singh, made up a ministerial delegation that travelled to Moreh, near the Myanmar border, to explore the potential location for the shelter home. 

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