New Delhi: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has threatened to target Congress leaders in Assam if Army continues to strike against the banned group.
A caller claiming to be from the group's strike force 28th battalion in upper Assam rang up a private TV channel's office in Guwahati and made the threat.
The caller also claimed that ULFA “could not be defeated by 10 lakh Armymen, leave alone 10,000”.
The Centre has sent nearly 10,000 soldiers to carry out operations against the group after it killed nearly 70 migrant workers in the state.
Meanwhile, Operation Clear launched by the Army to wipe out the insurgents from their hideouts has succeeded in apprehending five militants from different parts of upper Assam.
Two militants were apprehended during search operations at Tingrai while another two were picked up from Naholia area in Dibrugarh district, defence sources said.
The troops also apprehended an ULFA overground worker at Nipunkheti of neighbouring Tinsukia district along with medical instruments like a stethoscope, 75 copies of the outfit's mouthpiece Swadhinata, a combat dress and 100 liquor bottles.
The Army on Friday had achieved its first success in the intensified operation launched since Wednesday by killing a cadre in lower Assam even as the troops stormed reserve forests in the state and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh in search of the outfit's camps there.
Assam’s international and interstate borders have also been sealed to prevent the insurgents from escaping to neighbouring Bhutan and Myanmar, where they are believed to have training camps, official sources said.
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