Guwahati: One Assam Rifles soldier was killed and nine others were critically wounded in an ambush by Naga rebels in Arunachal Pradesh’s Longding district on Saturday.
Security officials said that rebels, including those from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K), carried out the attack near Wakka, 20 km from the Indo-Myanmar border.
Defence spokesperson Lt. Colonel Sumeet Newton said that soldiers of 16 Assam Rifles were returning from Nginu to their headquarters in a convoy of two vehicles when the attack took place. He said that the injured Army soldiers were airlifted to a hospital for treatment. “Search operation is going on in the area and efforts were made to evacuate the injured jawans,” he said.
On November 19, a combined team of the NSCN-K and the United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent attacked an Army regiment in Assam’s Tinsukia district, killing three and injuring four.
Meanwhile, security officials said that suspected NSCN-K rebels also kidnapped a senior executive of a construction company from Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday.
