TURA: South Garo Hills police have shot dead a senior GNLA deputy commander during an early morning raid on their hideout near Chokpot on Thursday leading to the recovery of two weapons.
Police commandos raided the hideout of the GNLA group at Dajiteksagre village, 15 kms away from Chokpot village at 5am and were fired upon by an alert sentry of the militant group.
During the encounter one militant was killed and two weapons, an INSAS automatic rifle and a pistol, were recovered from the site of the encounter.
Police informed that the deceased militant was the deputy area commander of Chokpot region and went by the name of Saddam Sangma.
Two UALA militants arrested : Meanwhile a PTI report from Guwhati said that two suspected extremists belonging to United A’chick Liberation Army (UALA) along with a cache of arms and ammunition were nabbed from Meghalaya in a joint operation of the Police and the Army.
“In a joint operation conducted by Army and Meghalaya Police, two hardcore terrorists of UALA were apprehended near village Birubari in North West Garo Hills District on May 20,” a Defence spokesperson said in a statement.
The arrested terrorists have been identified as Arnes Momin alias Dikdik and Lepin R Sangma alias Dilsang Sangma, who was the Platoon Commander of Goalpara district in Assam. “One 7.65 mm pistol, one country made shot gun, few rounds of ammunition, a motorcycle and other materials were recovered from him,” the official said.
The apprehended terrorists were close associates of Sinbirth Momin alias Norok, the ‘C-in-C’ of UALA and were involved in the Gandabari massacre of November 2013 wherein seven Rabha people were killed.
