Meghalaya: Unidentified youth set police vehicle on fire in Jaiaw 

Eye-witnesses informed that the vehicle was first stopped at Mawlai Mawkynroh near Shillong bypass and vandalised. 

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SHILLONG: 

A police vehicle (black SUV) belonging to the Mawkynroh Police Outpost was set ablaze by unidentified youth at Jaiaw on Sunday afternoon. 

Eye-witnesses informed that the vehicle was first stopped at Mawlai Mawkynroh near Shillong bypass and vandalised. 

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"Police personnel numbering six to seven, including the officer in charge of Mawkynroh Outpost, managed to escape," an eye-witness said. 

"I could see stones flying from all sides and, the vehicle was completely damaged," the witness told TNT-The Northeast Today. 

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The youth then seized the vehicle, including the weapons and armours belonging to the police, and took it for a ride before setting it on fire at Jaiaw.

The main gate leading to the Mawkynroh police outpost was also vandalised and damaged.

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(Ibankyntiew Mawrie)

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