GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) alias ULFA (I) in a statement emailed to the media here on Monday claimed that in a joint ambush carried out on Assam Rifles personnel carried out near Aboi town in Mon district on Nagaland on Sunday afternoon with Naga rebel group NSCN (K) was a joint operation killed four Assam Rifles jawans while six others were injured.
The banned outfit which has base in Myanmar jungles across the border claimed to have snatched away for weapons and ammunition that were with the Assam Rifles team.
Police sources in Nagaland informed that at least three Assam Rifles men were killed and at least two others injured when rebel National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang faction) or NSCN-K attacked on an Assam Rifles vehicle near Aboi in Mon district of Nagaland bordering Myanmar on Sunday. The rebels threw grenades and fired heavily on the Assam Rifles vehicle that was going to fetch water from a river at Aboi.
The slain Assam Rifles jawans were identified as Shyam Bahadur, Alom Hussain and G D Konyak while the two of injured jawans were identified as Sachin Kumar and Dileep Singh.
Security sources said the rebels hurled hand grenades and fired upon the Assam Rifles vehicle. Sources further said the Assam Rifles personnel also fired back and militants were injured in the ensuing encounter.
Mon district, which borders Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar, is used as hideout by insurgent outfits of the region.
This is the second similar attack carried out by NSCN (K) in Mon district of Nagaland. Seven Assam Rifles personnel and one Territorial Army jawan were killed in an NSCN (K) ambush in 2015 when they had gone to Changlansu in Mon district with water tankers to fetch water.