Tripura villager tries to stop burglars from fleeing, loses finger

“After peeking outside, helium saw respective scantily-clothed radical trying to pry unfastened the fastener to his livestock shed. Thinking that the miscreants mightiness onslaught him if helium confronted them alone, helium called up his neighbours implicit the telephone and asked them to travel to his house. Seeing villagers coming toward the house, the intruders fled from the spot.

“But the villagers caught up with them immoderate 50-100 metre distant and tried to halt them from escaping. Thereafter, a burglar attacked a villager with a machete and the pack escaped from the spot,” helium said.

The constabulary informed that 1 mediate digit of the victim, Ranjit Biswas, 32, a neighbour of Dilip Biswas, has been wholly severed, and helium has besides mislaid astir 70 per cent of his close ringing finger.

Mobile telephone besides damaged

Ranjit Biswas’s mobile phone, too, was damaged successful the attack.

Meanwhile, the section constabulary rushed to the spot and besides alerted the Border Security Force (BSF).

However, nary transgression progressive successful the incidental was caught till the clip of filing this report.

A fewer cases of cattle theft person been reported precocious successful Paharmura and Shingicherra areas of the Khowai district.