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Seven guerrillas killed in Manipur encounter | Security forces in Manipur gunned down seven ultra guerrillas during an encounter near Andro Sanapat in Imphal on Sunday. Addressing a press conference, Commanding
Officer of 28 Assam Rifles, Col. S C Rana , said that they had raided a rebel
hideout and had a gun battle, which lasted over three hours. “We had inputs regarding
the movement of armed cadres in the north east jungle area of Andro Sanapat and
accordingly the operation was planned and launched. So, at about 23.30 hours (on
Saturday) the contact with the UGs (ultra guerrillas) was established and there
was a fight, which continued till 2.30 am on Sunday,” Col. Rana said. “The search
was carried out and some recoveries made included seven bodies of UGs and weapons,”
he added. Huge cache of arms, including two AK 47 Rifles, one 7.62 US made rifle,
one .69 automatic pistol, three 9mm pistols, one RPG shell, three lathode grenade
shells, two hand grenades, several live rounds of ammunitions, wires, detonating
materials, small quantity of explosive materials and one radio set were recovered
from the spot of action. |
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