TURA: Suspected GNLA cadres ambushed a police team near Tapa Agitchak in North Garo Hills on Saturday in which an Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) was injured.
According to the North Garo Hills district police chief Ramesh Singh, the police team in four vehicles was returning from an operation at Tapa Agitchak when they were ambushed by the GNLA militants numbering around 7 to 8 at Anjonga village under Mendipathar.
North Garo Hills Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Ringrang Theopilus Momin was injured in the incident. The militants, however, managed to escape into the jungles before police could retaliate.
“The ASP was hit on the backside and has since been taken to Guwahati for treatment,” Singh said.
Grenade lobbed : Meanwhile, according to a delayed report unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade at Choipani Market in Dalu on Friday night.
The incident occurred at around 9: 30 pm in front of a wine store along the Choipani-Dimapara Road when two motorcycle-borne youths lobbed a grenade damaging a brick wall near it. No one was injured in the incident.
