A 44-year-old was killed Thursday in a clash between residents of two villages in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district and Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district along the disputed border between both states.

Police said Oriwel Timung, a resident Tapat village in West Karbi Anglong district, succumbed to injuries sustained during “multiple scuffles” between villagers of Tapat and West Jaintia Hills’ Lapangap when villagers from Lapangap were harvesting paddy in the disputed area — something police in both districts stated is a practice dating back “generations.”

The area where the incident took place is one of six disputed stretches of area along the 884-km-long Assam-Meghalaya border, over which the governments of the two states continue to be in talks. In March 2022, the two government

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