Source: Hueiyen News Service / Agency
Guwahati, April 29 2009:
A woman was killed and 12 others were injured as militants opened fire on villagers at Yeah in Assam's North Cachar Hills district on Tuesday afternoon even as two NDFB insurgents in in the October 30 serial blasts in the state were today killed in an encounter with a joint police and army team in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.
Subhash Das, Principal Secretary, Home, said a group of extremists raided the village and resorted to indiscriminate firing.
Houses set afire.
They also set ablaze about 15 houses in the village located close to the Assam-Nagaland border.
Security forces rushed to Yeah but they were yet to ascertain the identity of the attackers.
In Baska district, two militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom were killed in an encounter with the security forces.
Two NDFB insurgents involved in the October 30 serial blasts in the state were today killed in an encounter with a joint police and army team in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.
On intelligence input that the two were hiding at Bhalukjhora village, the security team cordoned off the area to conduct a search operation, Superintendent of Police P K Dutta said.
The two National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants then attempted to flee away firing at the police and armymen, who also retaliated killing the two on the spot at around 3 am, Dutta said.
Commanding Officer Hitesh Bhalla of Eleven Maratha Regiment, which conducted the search operation with police, said the two NDFB extremists were involved in the October 30 serial blasts that killed 91 people and injured 320 others.
They were identified as Simang Basumatary and Chandan Basumatary of the NDFB's 3rd battalion located in Bangladesh under the leadership of the anti-talk Ranjan Daimary faction, Bhalla said.
Two Italian-made 9-mm pistols with four rounds of ammunition, three foreign-made grenades, three rounds of 7.6-mm live ammunition, one 9-mm fired case, two magazines and two mobile sets were recovered from them, the SP said.