Darjeeling unrest: Six security personnel injured after GJM activists attack patrol party

IANS, 30 June 2017: Darjeeling: There was fresh violence in north Bengal hills on Thursday night, as Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists attacked a police-CRPF patrol party, injuring six security personnel in Teesta Valley, and ransacked a police outpost.

Two police vehicles were burnt by the irate GJM supporters, who snatched an SLR as also a nine mm pistol in the Rangli Rangliat police outpost area in Darjeeling district.

Four CRPF troopers and two state police constables were injured in the attack.

Two of the security personnel were serious, police said.

The attackers used stones and traditional Nepali knives.

Meanwhile, the indefinite shutdown continues to paralyse normal life in hill town Darjeeling and adjoining areas.

Barring pharmacies, all other shops and markets that generally buzzes with tourist activity at this time of the year remains closed while the famous mall road of Darjeeling bears a desolate look.

The pro-Gorkhaland activists were seen putting up posters all around the city demanding the separate Gorkhaland.