Shillong: GNLA militant killed in encounter

January 16, 2016 12:44

A Garo National Liberation Army militant, wanted for kidnapping a block development officer last year, was today killed in an encounter with the security forces in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district, the police said.

Acting on intelligence inputs, Swift Weapons and Tactics commandos of the state police raided a makeshift camp of GNLA. As the commandos approached the camp they were fired upon, police said.

In retaliatory fire, one of the militants who was in the camp was shot dead and another got shot in his arms. The deceased has been identified as Kandem, known to be an expert in assembling IEDs, IG (Operations) G H P Raju said.

A shot gun was recovered from the site of the encounter and an operation is on to find his aide, identified as Chondro, and sanitise the area, he said.

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