Three persons including two members of the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom and a civilian aged about 55 years were killed following a fierce gun battle between the militants and a team of Assam police at Borka near Sangsari about 35 kilometres away from Guwahati late on Wednesday night. The encounter lasted till 1 am Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off that a team of ULFA ultras were hiding at the residence of one Govinda Deka at Borka village, a police team stormed into the hide out late last night. The police team was engaged in a long gun battle by the well-armed group of militants.
Police suspected that the slain militants might be two senior leaders of the ULFA's 709 battalion. The identity of the civilian killed in the encounter was yet to be confirmed by the police.
Meanwhile, a joint team of police and the Army on Wednesday seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from two activists of Assam-based human rights group Manab Adhikar Sangram Samity near