Aizawl, October 31 (NNN): Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) ambushed a police patrolling party in remote village of East Garo Hills in Meghalaya on Monday evening leaving two policemen injured and four others missing.
According to a police source, policemen were on a routine patrol on the militant affected area along the National Highway 62 when they came under intense firing from a group of heavily armed cadres hiding in the forest.
After a fierce encounter, the GNLA fled to a nearby forest leaving two policemen injured and four others missing. Inspector General of Police (IGP) (Western Range) G H P Raju informed NNN that the incident took place in a remote village located around 40 kms from the district headquarters of East Garo Hills.
Asked on the fate of the missing policemen, Raju said that a manhunt is on to nab the militants as well as to establish the actual fate of the missing men. The search team was backed by heavy re-enforcement of special trained CRPF Cobra force and police commandos, informed the police officer.
It was learnt that the GNL team numbering more than a dozen was led by a senior cadre identified as Rakkam Sangma. Sangma was a cadre who worked under the direct command of the outfit’s Commander-in-Chief Sohan D Shira and was active in East Garo Hills, informed another source in the Meghalaya police. Mentionably, today’s incident was the second GNLA attack on police personnel in the past two weeks.