One killed amid exchange of fire along Naga-Assam border

Continuing exchange of fire along the Assam-Nagaland border during an anti-encroachment operation in Doldoli Reserve Forest in Assam left a miscreant dead today, said a senior police officer.
Gunmen from across the border along Assam's Karbi Anglong district fired upon security personnel and workers engaged in the eviction operation forcing the police to retaliate and one person from Nagaland was killed, district Superintendent of Police M J Mahanta told PTI.
Positioning themselves from bunkers set up near an army camp in Nagaland in the Kasiram border outpost area, the miscreants fired from sophisticated weapons to prevent the eviction drive, Mahanta said.

An AK-series assault rifle and a pistol were recovered from the deceased, he said adding the rest of the people managed to flee.
Meanwhile, DIG-Border, DIG-Central Western Range, district Deputy Commissioner and the SP held a meeting today on the border issue.
There was heavy exchange of fire yesterday also in the encroached Doldoli Reserve Forest when a forest department personnel was killed and another official and a police constable injured when unidentified persons from Nagaland opened fire on them from sophisticated INSAS rifles, light machine guns and rocket launchers.
Since January this year anti-socials had occupied several hundred hectares of the Reserve Forest and were periodically firing on security personnel at Sankertilla, Kasiram,Lahorijan and Rangapa BOP areas, Additional Superintendent of Police Nanda Singh said.

Nine cases were registered in this connection at the Diphu Police Station and 55 persons arrested since then, he added.