Arunachal Pradesh : Suspected NSCN-Khaplang militants attack in Assam Rifles camp
There have no report of any casualties in the militant attack.
A group of 40 NSCN-Khaplang rebels attacked the AR camp in remote Lazu area in Tirap district along the Indo-Myanmar border.
Tirap district SP Ajit Kumar Singh said the militant group comprised with automatic weapons attacked the camp at around 2:30 am.
"The AR personnel were alerted as per intelligence report for probable militants attack, who retaliated which the militants had managed to flee from the area with the help of darkness, " the police official said.
Later, security personnel recovered 70 empty cartridges of AK-47, unexploded bomb from the area.
Army and Arunachal Pradesh police had launched massive combing operation against the militants in the remote bordering areas.
It is the second attack by suspected NSCN-Khaplang rebels on Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh in this year.
Newly formed UNLFW led by NSCN-Khaplang, ULFA(I) had killed at least 18 jawans of 6 Dogra Infantry Regiment in Manipur's Chandel district on June 4.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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