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2 NDFB militants killed, 5 arrested

GUWAHATI: Two militants of the third battalion of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) were killed in an encounter with the police in lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Friday. Security forces have also arrested five cadres of the outfit in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district.

The slain NDFB militants have been identified as the self-styled commander of NDFB’s third battalion M. Mudai and Howla Basumatary. The third battalion of the outfit is currently with the Ranjan Daimary-led anti-talk faction of the NDFB.

Two pistols (one Italian made and the other made in the United States), three magazines, one grenade and a cell phone were recovered from the slain militants.

The police said an encounter ensued between a police team and the two NDFB members at Basbari village under Bismuri police outpost in Kokrajhar district early in the morning. The police alleged that the militants had first lobbed a grenade which did not explode and later fired at the police team. The police retaliated, during which the two were killed on the spot.

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