Mobile internet suspended in 7 Meghalaya districts after Mukroh firing
Live MintThe Meghalaya government has suspended mobile internet services in seven districts of the state following a firing incident in the Mukroh area of West Jaintia Hills District where four people were killed. At least four persons, including three people from West Jaintia Hills and an Assam forest guard, were killed in a firing incident that took place at the Mukroh area along the Assam-Meghalaya border on Tuesday after a truck transporting illegal timber was intercepted. Following the firing incident in Mukroh, the Assam Police sounded an alert in all the districts bordering Meghalaya to thwart any possible law and order situation, an official said. West Karbi Anglong superintendent of police Imdad Ali said, "A forest home guard and three persons of the Khasi community of Meghalaya were killed in the incident.