Assam Rifles officer damage in militants assault at India-Myanmar border in Arunachal
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GUWAHATI: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was injured when the militants carried out an assault on the Assam Rifles in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
Official sources stated the militants, suspected to be from the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the Yung Aung faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-YA), had fired the photographs from throughout the Myanmar border at round 3 am.
“The Assam Rifles troops were undertaking enhanced patrolling activities in view of heightened vigil for the forthcoming Independence Day. One JCO sustained minor injury in the hand. No injury or any other damage reported,” Assam’s Tezpur-based defence spokesman Lt Col AS Walia stated.
The web site of the incident is 1 km away from the Pangsau Pass. Reports steered the militants used mortars within the assault.
Gunshots had been additionally heard on the worldwide border in Noklak district of neighbouring Nagaland. “The Assam Rifles said gunshots were heard at midnight. Our officers are at the site to verify it,” Noklak Superintendent of Police Pritpal Kaur instructed The New Indian Express.
Recently, a number of militant outfits of the Northeast, together with ULFA and NSCN-YA which function out of Myanmar, had collectively referred to as for a boycott of the Independence Day and appealed to folks within the area to not take part within the celebration.
GUWAHATI: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was injured when the militants carried out an assault on the Assam Rifles in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
Official sources stated the militants, suspected to be from the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the Yung Aung faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-YA), had fired the photographs from throughout the Myanmar border at round 3 am.
“The Assam Rifles troops were undertaking enhanced patrolling activities in view of heightened vigil for the forthcoming Independence Day. One JCO sustained minor injury in the hand. No injury or any other damage reported,” Assam’s Tezpur-based defence spokesman Lt Col AS Walia stated.
The web site of the incident is 1 km away from the Pangsau Pass. Reports steered the militants used mortars within the assault.
Gunshots had been additionally heard on the worldwide border in Noklak district of neighbouring Nagaland. “The Assam Rifles said gunshots were heard at midnight. Our officers are at the site to verify it,” Noklak Superintendent of Police Pritpal Kaur instructed The New Indian Express.
Recently, a number of militant outfits of the Northeast, together with ULFA and NSCN-YA which function out of Myanmar, had collectively referred to as for a boycott of the Independence Day and appealed to folks within the area to not take part within the celebration.
