Kin of 17 slain cops offered jobs

AIZAWL, August 5: Mizoram Director General of Police (DGP) M. Tumsanga on Friday gave appointments on compassionate ground to the dependents of 17 policemen killed in action, reports PTI. The appointees included wives or next-of-kin of the seven policemen killed by Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants near Malsury in Lunglei district on June 30 and those five policemen killed by Manipur's PREPAK ultras at Mizoram-Manipur border hamlet of Vaitin in 1999. All the 17 new appointees were given jobs according to their educational qualifications in the police department. Addressing the simple ceremony, Tumsanga implored the policemen that their family members should be ready for any eventuality as Mizoram is bound by trouble-torn states and foreign countries where insurgents have their camps and hideouts. He said that a memorial stone would be erected at the place where seven cops were killed in the BNLF ambush near Malsury.