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ULFA sends guerrillas to target urban areas

The banned United Liberation Front of Asom has sent specially trained urban guerrillas to operate in different towns in the Assam and neighbouring West Bengal, official sources said. The guerrillas were trained by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres at a camp in Deothang inside the jungles of Bhutan, the sources added.

The guerillas, operating in groups and led by senior cadres, had already entered Nalbari, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar and Dhubri in Assam and set up a base close to the tea gardens in Siliguri of West Bengal, the sources revealed. Their main objective was extortion of money and ensuring free movement for their cadres from the camps in Bhutan to Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, the strategy group of the unified command comprising army, paramilitary forces and the police, reviewed the prevailing law and order situation and the ongoing counter-insurgency operations in Assam yesterday. The army has already cautioned the people to be on the lookout for any suspicious items and instructed them to immediately report to the nearest police station or army post.

Troops of 2 Mountain Division had detected an improvised explosive device on National Highway 37 near Panitola Intinsukia district yesterday. The sources suspect that the guerrillas might target VVIPs and important personnel of the state government and plant bombs at public places.

UNI

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