Vehicles with Assam registration numbers are barred from entering Meghalaya.

Guwahati: Police in Assam have allegedly stopped vehicles with Assam registration numbers from going to Meghalaya.

The Assam Police have taken this step as a measure to prevent further escalation of tension between the two states after an incident of firing in the inter-state border areas.
At least six people, including an Assam forest guard, were killed in the firing incident in the Karbi Anglong-West Jaintia Hills inter-state border area.

According to reports, Assam police officials are preventing vehicles from the state from entering Meghalaya in socks.

A violent clash broke out in Mukrang under Gerikanding police station in West Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Meghalaya border on Tuesday morning.

Police sources said the clash between the Assam Police and a group of people from Meghalaya started when forest officials from the Karbi-Aglang district intercepted a truck transporting illegal timber on Tuesday morning.
The truck was intercepted by a team of the Assam Forest Department on the Meghalaya border around 3 am, said West Kirby Anglong SP Imdad Ali.

As the truck tried to flee, the forest guards fired at it and punctured a tire.

The driver, a handyman and another person were arrested, while others managed to escape, he said.
He added that the forest guards informed the Zirkanding police station and called for reinforcements.

As the police reached the spot, a strong mob armed with sharp weapons from Meghalaya gathered at the spot around 5 am, the officer said.

He said that when the mob surrounded the forest guards and the police, demanding the immediate release of the arrested persons, the officers fired at them to bring the situation under control.