Aizawl, March 9: Mizoram Home minister Lalchamliana on Monday said the government has been providing relief and shelter to the people entered into Indian territory from military coup hit Myanmar.

He also said that the state government is waiting advices from the center “to handle the foreign nationals”.

While giving a statement in the budget session of the state assembly, the minister said that the state government has sent the details about the “people fled into Mizoram from neighbouring Myanmar” to the Union Home Ministry and waiting the center’s advice to deal with the foreign nationals.

The Mizo people who were staying in Myanmar are taking refuge in Mizoram after the military coup in Myanmar.

On the other hand, the Myanmar authorities on Friday requested India to send back their eight police officers, who have crossed into Mizoram since March 3.

In a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Champai district in Mizoram, Maria C.T. Zuali, her counterpart in Falam district (under Chin state) in Myanmar, Saw Htun Win, requested to detain the eight Myanmar police personnel and hand them over to the country.

Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha member C. Lalrosanga said that 15 Myanmar police personnel came to Champhai district while eight policemen took shelter in Serchhip district.

The Mizoram government has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) with regard to the people entering Mizoram from Myanmar in view of the military coup.

Mizoram’s 510 km international borders with Myanmar have been guarded by the Assam Rifles while the Border Security Force maintained the security along the state’s 318 km border with Bangladesh.