PTI
AGARTALA: A Buddhist temple and several huts of the Chakma community
were ransacked and torched by All Tripura Tiger Force insurgents
in Dhalai district of Tripura, police said on Tuesday.
A group of ATTF insurgents raided Taichakma village on Sunday night
and ransacked and set ablaze a thatched Buddhist temple, police
said quoting delayed reports.
Villagers who tried to extinguish the flames were severely beaten
up by the ultras who then set ablaze 13 huts belonging to five Chakma
families, police said.
Earlier, insurgents of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT),
which had served a notice in the hill areas last year warning of
stern action against villagers who practise any other religion except
Christianity, had on December five ransacked a Buddhist temple and
took away scriptures and the idol in Almara village of south Tripura
district.
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