In a major success against the Karbi Peoples’ liberation Tigers (KPlT) militants, the Indian Army has gunned down six armed cadres of the outfit at a remote forested area in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on Friday morning.
The Army has also busted a camp of the outfit and recovered several arms, ammunition and some incriminating documents from their possession. Guwahati based Defence Spokesman lt Col Suneet Newton said that one INSAS Rifle, One 7.62mm Self loading Rifle, One Country made Rifle, Hand Grenades and large quantity of ammunition and incriminating documents have also been recovered from the slain militants.
“On receiving specific intelligence about a KPlT camp in the dense Nambar reserve forest, an Army unit launched an operation on Thursday night. The troops spotted the camp with armed terrorists around 1 am today. However, on being challenged, the terrorists opened firing on the troops. In the ensuing gun battle that took place, six militants could be neutralised while the rest managed to escape,” he said adding that the slain cadres include two top level cadres of the outfit.
The KPlT has been the most prominent outfit active in West and East Karbi Anglong areas in Assam and were involved in several activities including extortion,
kidnapping and inference in civil development activities and killing of innocent
civilians.