NONGSTOIN: A group of GNLA militants hiding in a village in West Khasi Hills managed to escape following a gunbattle with SF-10 commandos on Wednesday.
The commandos launched a search operation after they received intelligence inputs about the rebels hiding at Dymmit village, sources in SF-10 and Rongkhugre VDP said.
However, when the commandos came near the hideout, the militant on guard saw them and alerted others. The rebels then opened fire and the commandos fired back in retaliation.
But the militants managed to escape.
The search team recovered a walkie-talkie, two mobile phones, a smartphone, a satellite phone with sim made in Switzerland, the EPIC of Sengku Momin and explosives, among other things.
