A policeman had on Thursday shot and killed the soldier, who was in mufti, after tagging him an armed robber. Dissatisfied with the killing of their colleague, some soldiers had stormed the Rumukpakani Police Station, and reportedly arrested the Divisional Police Officer and eight others, including the policeman who shot the soldier. One of our correspondents, who was at the police station, observed that the station had been deserted. “It was learnt that some of the policemen at the station began to leave the station when they gathered that the man they shot was a soldier. A policeman attached to the station told our correspondent that policemen had abandoned the station.

Source: Punch May 18, 2018 02:26 UTC