19 Myanmar police go into India, in search of safe haven
Nineteen Myanmar cops on Thursday crossed into India to hunt safe haven there, a senior police reliable mentioned.
Myanmar electorate residing in India cling placards all over a protest towards the army coup in Myanmar (AP)
No less than 19 Myanmar cops have crossed over into India and are in search of safe haven there, a senior police reliable instructed Reuters.
The lads crossed into Champai and Serchhip, two districts within the northeastern state of Mizoram that proportion a porous border with Myanmar, the reliable mentioned, declining to be named as a result of the sensitivity of the problem.
All of the males, who’re lower-ranking policemen, have been unarmed, the reliable mentioned. “We predict extra (other folks) to return,” he mentioned, bringing up intelligence studies.
India stocks a 1,643-kilometre (1020-mile) land border with Myanmar, the place a minimum of 54 other folks had been killed since a Feb. 1 coup.