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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 17 2010:
Eight hideouts of underground outfits were reportedly destroyed during the search operation conducted by the troops of Red Shield Division from January 14 till 16 .
A PIB (DW) release issued today said, part from destruction of the hideouts built on the floating bio-mass of the Loktak Lake, large number of warlike and administrative stores were also recovered during the course of operation that also resulted in the Army suffering a casualty.
Informing that funeral service of the Army victim namely rifleman Y Raju Singh had been conducted with full military honour, the release said Raju lost his life in an exchange of fire with the UG cadres.
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Regarding the operation, it maintained that based on information of UG hideouts in the area of Keibul Lamjao, the army troops moved in to flush out the UGs from their hideouts.
The presence of rare species known as Sangai in this protected area was taken advantage of by banned underground outfits to establish a network of administrative and operational camps and hideouts in this inaccessible area, which they considered their 'safe haven', the release further maintained while adding that the locals belonging to numerous villages on the fringes of Loktak lake were coerced and forced to provide sustenance to these camps.
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