Imphal, March 16: Reacting to media reports of the UNLF/MPA slaying six Assam Rifles men during the attack at the T Minnou camp of the 24 AR yesterday, authorities of the para-military force apart from categorically rejecting the casualty figure contended that two cadres of the proscribed outfit were slain in the gun-fight.

according to a statement issued by the PRO IGAR (S) today, suspected UNLF cadres in large number resorted to heavy firing on the AR post located in Thangbung Minou in Chandel district from across the international border.

Informing that the militants fired rocket launchers, lethodes and mortars, the PRO maintained that the UGs' attack was repulsed by the soldiers even as two barracks within the post caught fire.

Rifleman WM Mohamad Hadish, who was hit in the firing and suffered injuries succumbed to the injury while four jawans suffered gun shot wounds, the statement maintained while identifying the injured as Chander Prakash, Raju Tonglim, Suren Deury (Hav) and Vijay Singh.

Further clarifying that the military helicopters were brought to the site to evacuate the injured to the military hospital at Leimakhong and not for ferrying senior officers as reported in sections of the media, the PRO said that the attackers managed to flee from the site after the incident taking advantage of the international border.

"It is also clarified that no civilians were injured in the action by the SF (security force) against the UGs.

The Assam Rifles exercised utmost restraint in retaliating against the UGs considering the sensitivity involved in firing across the Indo-Myanmar border," the PRO explained.

Reiterating the slaying of the two UGs and injuries caused to the attackers in the retaliatory firing by the AR, the PRO contended that bodies of the deceased UGs were dragged into Myanmar by the fleeing UGs.