TEZPUR, April 20: Five militants — three from NDFB and two from MULTA — were killed in a gunbattle with a joint team of the Army and Assam Police at Akabasti in the Khonamukh area under Charduar police station in Sonitpur district in the wee hours today. A large quantity of weapons and explosives were recovered from the militants.
The gunbattle began at midnight on Sunday and it continued for about three hours. According to sources, acting on a tip-off that a group of NDFB and MULTA militants were camping in a house in the village with a specific mission to exchange arms and kidnap a businessman for ransom, the Army and police cordoned off the area. When security personnel was zeroing in on the house, the militants fired at them from inside. The security forces retaliated the firing and the encounter continued for three hours during which five militants were shot dead, while others fled taking the cover of darkness, sources said.
Five kilograms of explosives, 10 detonators, 141 live cartridges of AK-47 Rifles and one Chinese grenade were recovered from the dead militants who have been identified as NDFB cadres Prabhat Basumatary, Krishna Basumatary and Deithang Basumatary, and MULTA cadres Babul Ali and Yunus Ali. THE SENTINEL
The gunbattle began at midnight on Sunday and it continued for about three hours. According to sources, acting on a tip-off that a group of NDFB and MULTA militants were camping in a house in the village with a specific mission to exchange arms and kidnap a businessman for ransom, the Army and police cordoned off the area. When security personnel was zeroing in on the house, the militants fired at them from inside. The security forces retaliated the firing and the encounter continued for three hours during which five militants were shot dead, while others fled taking the cover of darkness, sources said.
Five kilograms of explosives, 10 detonators, 141 live cartridges of AK-47 Rifles and one Chinese grenade were recovered from the dead militants who have been identified as NDFB cadres Prabhat Basumatary, Krishna Basumatary and Deithang Basumatary, and MULTA cadres Babul Ali and Yunus Ali. THE SENTINEL
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