Patna, Oct. 21: Intelligence agencies have alerted the state administration about a tension brewing in Sitamarhi after clashes between Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel and a group of residents over detention of a youth on Monday.

The Intelligence Bureau, in its report dispatched to the Union home ministry on Tuesday, said a clash broke out between the SSB personnel and the locals after a youth was detained for his alleged involvement in transportation of beef to Nepal.

Cow slaughter is banned in Bihar.

Residents attacked the SSB camp and 13 jawans were injured in the clash. The SSB intercepted the youth near Kanhwa village under the jurisdiction of Bela police station, around 150km north of Patna, suspecting him to be a beef supplier in the areas adjacent to the India-Nepal border.