New Delhi: In the ongoing offensive against ULFA, two insurgents were killed while five managed to escape during two separate shootouts in Assam sources said on Saturday.
On the wake of recent blasts and a wave of ULFA attacks during January 5-8 in which 73 people were killed, 61 of them being Hindi-speaking migrant workers, a massive counter-insurgency operation was launched January 8 with close to 30,000 Army, police, and paramilitary personnel engaged in the fight against insurgency.
At least five insurgents killed and more than two dozen have been captured in the crackdown.
On Saturday’s gunfight with the police in Nepali Basti of Fatasil Ambari area in Guwahati, one ULFA operative was killed while three other members of the group managed to escape. The slain insurgent is yet to be identified.
In another incident, a top ULFA rebel was killed in a shootout with the Army in Dirak forest along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border last night.
Army sources in Guwahati said, as quoted by PTI, troops of 7/11 Gorkha Regiment were carrying out an operation inside the forest when they came upon a group of three insurgents.
In the ensuing gunfight, self-styled corporal Palashmoni Barua alias Bibhisan Chetia of the group's 28th Battalion 'A' was killed. The two others managed to escape.
Sources said the Army's 'Operation Clear' has been intensified to flush out ULFA insurgents from their camps in Tirap, Changlang and Lohit districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Dibru Saikhowa and Lakhipathar reserve forests in Assam along the border.
House-to-house operations have been launched by the troops in the forest villages of Nagajan, Mothola, Kakopathar, Dimokhula, Laila, Chiring Chuburi and Samuguri in Tinsukia and Toloi, Chepon and Tengakhat in Dibrugrah to flush out insurgents.
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