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SILCHAR: Sixteen people were injured as dacoits opened fire at Burunga village in Kalain block in Cachar district on Tuesday night. The condition of one of the injured persons is stated to be critical.
Sources said a group of 20-25 dacoits raided the house of a retired Army jawan named Azi Uddin in the area.
Dacoits looted gold ornaments and cash from the house at gunpoint, sources said. Aji Uddin’s wife said a gang of robbers entered the house and asked her where her husband was. The decoits kicked her when she said he was not at home and looted gold ornaments and Rs 4 lakh in cash by breaking down the almirahs in the house.
The ambulance reached the Silchar airport, 30 km away, in about 20 minutes
SILCHAR: Police in Silchar facilitated a “green corridor” from a private hospital in the city to the airport for a Covid patient, who had to be shifted to Kolkata in an air ambulance.
Following a request in this regard from the District Disaster Management Authority, superintendent of police (Cachar) Bhanwar Lal Meena and his team prepared the ‘green corridor’ for transporting the patient from Green Heals Hospital in Meherpur locality of the town to Silchar Airport at Kumbhirgram at 2.10 pm.
The convoy of vehicles, including the ambulance carrying the 32-year-old patient, reached the airport where the air ambulance was waiting to shift him to a hospital in Kolkata.