Five Assam police personnel were killed in an exchange of fire with their Mizoram counterparts after the protracted border row between the two northeastern States took a violent turn on July 26. Clashes at the border town of Vairengte also left at least 60 persons from Assam injured. The incident comes less than two days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with the Chief Ministers of the northeast in Meghalaya capital Shillong for resolving the inter-State boundary disputes. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who also holds the Home portfolio, tweeted, “My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families.” In a later tweet, he revised the number of policemen killed to five. Mizoram’s Home Minister Lalchamliana said the chain of events began at 11.30 am. Some 200 Assam police personnel came to the Vairengte auto-rickshaw stand and “forcibly” closed the duty post of the Central Reserve Police Force and a section of Mizoram police personnel. CRPF has been deployed as a neutral force at disputed stretches along the 164.6 km Assam-Mizoram border. As the border clash intensified on July 26, Dr Sarma and his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga traded charges on Twitter while tagging the Prime Minister’s Office and Shah. Watch the video to know more.