Four personnel of Assam Rifles (AR) were seriously wounded when militants targeted a patrol near Saibol village on India-Myanmar border in the wee hours on November 28. Though no militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack, the needle of suspicion points towards the outlawed People’s Liberation Army (PLA), one of the oldest outfits in the state, banned in 1979.

Earlier on September 13, a truck carrying AR personnel was ambushed by PLA militants on NH2 in Nambol town of Bishnupur district, in which two, including a junior commissioned officer, were martyred, and five others injured. The vehicle was on its way to the AR post in Maibam in Bishnupur from Imphal.

The militants initially fired on the tyres forcing it to stop a few meters away, and thereafter targeted the personne

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