From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: A policeman was injured and a police station was damaged when militants belonging to the utlawed United Liberation Font of Assam (ULFA), anti-talks faction, launched an attack on Namtola police station in Sonari sub-division of Sivasagar district of Assam bordering Nagaland late Monday night.
Police informed that suspected ULFA militants taking advantage of darkness sprayed bullets at the police station for about half an hour leaving a commando jawan injured besides causing damage to police station’s property including vehicles.
The militants lobbed a powerful grenade at the police station. But it missed the target and fell at a stranded truck causing a huge fire. Three vehicles parked inside the police station campus due to the attack.
Later top ranked police officials were rushed to the spot to launch a combing operation.
Security forces have cordoned off the entire area and have launched a combing operation to nab the ULFA men involved in the attack.
Meanwhile, the banned ULFA in a statement issued on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in retaliation to killing of an innocent Assamese youth, Lalit Moran, by the Army in coordination with Assam Police in a ‘fake encounter’ at Kakojan in Tinsukia district of Assam on the night of January 21 last.
The ULFA faction warned that more such attacks would be launched on Assam Police personnel if they did not stop coordinating with the Indian Army in killing ‘innocent Assamese youth’.