AGARTALA: After a long break of about eight years, unidentified men gunned down two BSF jawans and looted their service weapons in an early morning attack on Tuesday at the distant RC Nath area along Tripura’s eastern border with Bangladesh.
The area is under Chawmanu police station of Dhalai district. The police suspect the hand of the banned NLFT militants, who they said crossed the border to Bangladesh.
The dead jawans have been identified as sub-inspector Bhuru Singh and constable Raj Kumar of the 64 battalion of BSF Tripura Frontier. A massive search operation to track down the killers is underway.
Tripura: Two BSF jawan martyred in militant attack
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Militants kill 2 BSF jawans in Tripura, loot arms
Tue, Aug 03 2021 12:55:28 PM
Agartala, Aug 3 (IANS): Outlawed extremists gunned down two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel including a sub-inspector rank official and looted their sophisticated arms in Tripura on Tuesday, police said.
A police official in Agartala said that during patrolling, the suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked the BSF troopers at Manikpur tribal village leading to a fierce encounter in which two para-military personnel were killed on the spot.
The martyred BSF men include sub-inspector Bhuru Singh and constable Raj Kumar. The tribal guerrillas have taken away two sophisticated arms of the slain BSF jawans before they fled from the area, which is close to India-Bangladesh border under Dhalai district in northern Tripura.