Guwahati: A massive manhunt for a man who had escaped from a Corona Care centre in Assam on Wednesday finally led to his arrest in the neighboring Ri Bhoi district on Friday, July 3.
"After tireless efforts to trace the person who fled from a Corona Care center in Assam, Ri Bhoi special team led by Dysp Traffic, IC Byrnihat and Assam Police today located the said person in Jorabat area Assam side and handed him over to the concerned authority", read a tweet posted by the official account of the Ri Bhoi police.
According to reports, Massar along with in-charge of Byrnihat outpost, A. Sangma had provided the lead to Assam police about the location of the escaped person, and the two police teams joined hands to track him down after a 2-days-long manhunt.
"He fled from Assam. We were informed by a team of Assam police about this escaped person and his presence in Meghalaya for he had crossed over the border. He was caught in the bordering area, on the Meghalaya side. Interestingly, we were able to track him down using his GPS location. He was found near the cement plant in Jorabat", Nazarius Lamare, the Ri Bhoi Superintendent of Police, told The Sentinel Digital.
Meanwhile, due to the steady and alarming rise of COVID-19 cases in Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya, the state government on Friday imposed a 48-hour curfew in the areas from Byrnihat to Khanapara, beginning at 9 pm on Friday
Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong yesterday said that he has given directions to the Ri Bhoi Deputy Commissioner to issue the order and ensure that people do not come out of their houses during this curfew. He further informed that random testings will be conducted in these volatile areas due to the dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19 cases.