A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was killed in an ambush by banned militants on the Indo-Bangladesh border in North Tripura district on Friday morning.
Speaking to Indian Express, a senior BSF officer, who spoke on situation of anonymity, mentioned, “The ambush was carried out at round 8.30 am at this time (Friday). One of our jawans was injured. We took him out and introduced him to ILS Hospital in Agartala, however he died.
The martyr jawan has been recognized as 53-year-old head constable Girjesh Kumar Uday from Madhya Pradesh. Officials suspect that the assault was carried out by activists of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
The ambush occurred at Shimnapur in Damchera close to the distant Khantalung Border Our Post (BOP), a tri-junction of Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh.
The official additionally mentioned that the insurgents, who have been on Bangladeshi soil, weren’t attempting to enter Indian territory however as a substitute ambushed a staff of safety personnel stationed within the space. “They weren’t coming in. His goal was to ambush. There was a boundary wall. If they needed to are available, they might most likely have opted for nallahs, culverts and prevented fencing,” the official mentioned.
Faced with fireplace from the militants, the BSF retaliated and the insurgents fled to Bangladesh. “There were around 7-8 insurgents,” the BSF official mentioned, including that the BSF staff was a robust staff of 15-16 males and didn’t endure any accidents or deaths.
Earlier on August 5, six, together with 4 insurgents and two associates of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)-Vishvamohan faction, surrendered to the Tripura Police. Bangladesh is planning kidnapping and extortion within the border areas.
Those in possession of weapons included a self-styled lieutenant colonel, a self-styled colonel, a self-styled warrant officer and a cadre. Although armed battle within the state started in 1967 with Sengkrak, a small group that took up arms, it escalated within the late 80s when a collection of rebel teams arose, together with the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). , which is now- defunct All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), ATPLO and so on. Most of those organizations at the moment are defunct, aside from a small faction of the NLFT, that are claimed to be working past the clutches of Indian authorities in Bangladesh. Militancy lowered to an excellent extent in the course of the regime of the erstwhile Left Front authorities with profitable gives of Rs 1.5 lakh speedy grant, vocational coaching, Rs 2,000 stipend.
The present BJP-IPFT authorities dealt a serious blow to the already waning militancy in 2019, when over 80 activists of the surviving Vishwamohan Debbarma faction of the NLFT laid down their arms.
Tripura shares an 856-km lengthy worldwide border with Bangladesh, whose patches are nonetheless closed.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
