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Massive manhunt underway to track down militants involved in Manipur ambush : Assam Rifles Chief

Shillong, Nov 14 (UNI) A massive search operation has been launched in Manipur’s Churchandpur district, bordering Myanmar to track down militants involved in the killing of five Assam Rifles
troopers, Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles battalion, his wife and their 8-year-old son on Saturday morning.
“The search operation is on, but so far we are yet to make a breakthrough. It will take sometime.
I am sure with our surveillance we should get them soon,” Assam Rifles Chief Lieutenant General Pradeep Chandran Nair told UNI.
He said additional forces have been rushed to the area to assist in the operation.
Asked if the militants involved in the ambushed have been identified, the Assam Rifles Chief
said, “it is too early come to any conclusion, as of now we are just guessing it could be valley
(Imphal)-based militant groups as there are militant camps around 8 - 10 kilo meters across the
border (Myanmar territory) who are aware of the area might and have waited for the moment.”
Colonel Viplav Tripathi Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles was ambushed in remote
Thinghat village under Singhat sub-division of Churchandpur district while he was returning to
the Battalion headquarters following a visit Friday to a Company base in Behiang.
Four other troopers were also seriously injured in the ambush, whom intelligence officials
suspected that the hit and run attacked was carried out by Valley-based insurgent groups either
by People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) or People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Saturday’s attack is one of worst attacks on security forces after 18 soldiers of the 6 Dogra Regiment were killed in an ambushed at Chandel district on June,2015.
Army officials said that this is for the first time in the recent past, that the family of a serving
Army officer has been targeted in an attack.
Assam Rifles, the oldest paramilitary force in the country, has the twin responsibility of guarding
the treacherous India-Myanmar border and also conducting counter-insurgency operations in
Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland.
Four states of the North-east - Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Nagaland (215 km), Manipur (398 km) and Mizoram (510 km) - share the border.
Assam Rifles has 46 battalions, 15 of which are deployed along the India-Myanmar border.
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