From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI: Unidentified armed militants abducted two drivers of Indian Railways near Bairabi Railway station inside North Mizoram on Thursday evening triggering protests by colleagues who have paralysed functioning of the Railway in Badarpur section in South Assam.
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) spokesman S S Hajong on Friday informed two Railway drivers — P K Bhattacharrya and A K Sharma – were abducted by miscreants at around 7-30 on Thursday evening when their train was approaching Bairabi station inside Mizoram. They started the train left Lalabazar station in Hailakandi district of South Assam at 7.10 P.M along the Meter Gauge route to Bairabi.
The Railway is in touch with both the state governments of Assam and Mizoram after the abduction incident.
Protesting Railway staff paralysed the Railway control room at Badarpur rendering Railway service out of gear along Silchar-Badarpur section on Friday. The police of both the states have launched a joint operation to trace the abducted drivers.