Soldiers to patrol Male’ streets to curb rising street violence

by maldivestoday on April 8, 2008
Soldiers from Maldives National Defence Force will start patrolling the streets of Male’ to curb the growing street violence, MNDF said on Monday in a press conference. Major Ibrahim Afzal from MNDF told reporters that the government has requested MNDF to intervene to stop the street violence which has left a 15-year-old boy in a coma at Intensive Care Unit of Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH). Afzal said MNDF will be working to control the violence and that police will be involved in the investigation phase.

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