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Two businessmen found dead near Indo-Myanmar border

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Press Trust of India Imphal
Last Updated : Feb 20 2014 | 8:13 PM IST
A businessmen duo who had gone missing on a trade trip to a Myanmar border town were today found dead in the Laijang area, about 50km from Moreh along the Indo-Myanmar border, police said.
Sanvindar Singh (30) of Uttar Pradesh and Daljit Singh (33) of Mumbai had left Moreh on February 11 on their way to the Myanmar border town of Tamu, about 2km away, sources said.
The duo, who had gone to sell their items in the Myanmar border town after obtaining proper documents from immigration officials at Moreh, had failed to return to India in time.
Various civil society organisations had taken up the matter of their disappearance and demanded that the duo be traced. They had blocked the Indo-Myanmar border trade from February 17 and urged authorities in either country to locate the two businessmen.
International trade, involving crores of rupees, is done daily between India and Myanmar through the border town of Moreh, which lies about 124km south-east of Imphal in Chandel district.
The bodies bearing injury marks have been kept at Moreh police station from where they would be taken to Imphal for a post-mortem. No invidual or groups have claimed responsibility for the death of the two businessmen.

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First Published: Feb 20 2014 | 8:13 PM IST

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