Four suspected members of an armed gang were shot dead by police in an encounter on Sunday morning in Assam’s Goalpara district, officials said, adding that their identities were still being ascertained.

The incident took place in the Dhupdhara region of western Assam’s Goalpara district, according to the police.

Nabaneet Mahanta, Senior Superintendent of Police, Goalpara, said that the district police had set up barricades for checking vehicles after receiving inputs about armed gangsters moving around the area.

“For quite a few days, there was information that some criminal gang with arms has been on the move in the area at the border of Assam and Meghalaya. On the basis of that, we have been carrying out operations for the last some days. This morning we got input that this team is m

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