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  • Attack on Assam Rifles: Myanmar border will be sealed on priority, says Manipur CM Biren Singh

    Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: A day after the militants came from Myanmar and carried out the deadly ambush on an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, the state’s Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said the government would expedite fencing the porous international border.“We share a 398 km border with Myanmar. Given the sensitivity, the Home Ministry has already started the fencing work in vulnerable areas. It will be the priority of the state government and the Centre to fence the porous border to avoid such incidents,” Singh told journalists after visiting six injured personnel at a hospital in state capital Imphal.He said the border fencing work was going on at a stretch of 40 km and the work was stopped at some places due to disputes.Singh condemned the attack and said he had passed instructions to the state’s Home Department and the paramilitary forces to nab the perpetrators of the crime.

    ALSO READ: PLA rekindles cycle of violence in Manipur by killing Colonel, wife and sonSounding a warning to the militants, he said the state government would not compromise on such a terrorist act.Colonel Viplav Tripathi, who was the commanding officer of 46 Assam Rifles, his wife, their six-year-old son and four personnel were killed in the ambush carried out jointly by the People’s Liberation Army and the lesser-known Manipur Naga People’s Front.The incident took place at Thinghat, around 20 km from the Myanmar border, when the victims were returning after visiting a forward camp in the Singhat sub-division of Churachandpur.Col Tripathi hailed from Chhattisgarh. The four other slain personnel were from Assam, Nagaland, West Bengal and Rajasthan. Their mortal remains were flown to their respective state on Sunday.The security forces launched a massive manhunt for the insurgents responsible for the attack. A senior army official did not rule out a cross-border operation by the security forces. “That’s an option,” he told this newspaper.In June 2015, Indian para commandos had conducted a cross-border operation against insurgents belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) and killed over a dozen of them. Just days before the operation, the NSCN-K had killed 18 Army personnel in an ambush in Chandel district of Manipur.

  • Strongly condemn attack on Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur, says PM Modi

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Strongly condemning the attack on an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur that claimed seven lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

    Five soldiers including the Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles, and his two family members were killed in the attack on their convoy at Churachandpur in Manipur on Saturday.

    Modi tweeted, “Strongly condemn the attack on the Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur. I pay homage to those soldiers and family members who have been martyred today. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of sadness.”

    ALSO READ: Army colonel, wife and son among seven killed in Manipur ambush by militants

    The convoy was targeted by suspected militants of the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), a militant group in Manipur demanding a separate homeland.

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed anguish over the killing of five Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur on Saturday and described the attack by militants as “dastardly”.

    “I strongly condemn the dastardly attack by militants on a convoy of 46 Assam Rifles in Manipur. It pains me to learn that we have lost five brave soldiers, including the CO & his family members,” she tweeted.

    “Heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families. The entire nation awaits justice!” Banerjee said in the Twitter post.