An unidentified junior commissioner officer of Assam Rifles was killed and an unspecified number of the personnel injured in an ambush by suspected Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) at the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Ukhrul district in the early hours on Monday.
Police sources said the ambush took place at around 4.45 a.m. at Khokai village where the AR was on patrol duty.
The suspected militants first detonated two IEDs and when the 44 Assam Rifles personnel rushed to the spot, they attacked them with sophisticated weapons. The JCO, whose identity is yet to be disclosed by AR, died on the spot.
Details yet to be known
The police said the details were yet to be known as Khokai is a remote village from the Kamjong sub-division headquarters. Reinforcements have been rushed and combing operation is on, the police said.
Today’s ambush comes on the heels of another ambush yesterday also at the Indo-Myanmar border at Satang village near Moreh in Chandel district.
One AR personnel was killed and two others were injured in that ambush by Manipur Peoples Army.
Six-month-long night curfew had been imposed on October 12 along the 380 km stretch of the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur portions stretching across Ukhrul, Chandel and Churachandpur districts restricting movement of any person five km from the international border to check insurgents and smuggling of illegal items, including arms and drugs. - PTI
