2 members of new Assam extremist group gunned down
The Hindu
United Liberation of Bodoland has belied claim of peace having returned to a part of the State
The Assam police on September 18 gunned down two members of a new extremist group in a region where peace was said to have returned.
Special DGP (Law & Order) G.P. Singh said a camp of the United Liberation of Bodoland (ULB) was busted in the Ultapani area in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district. The district is one of four under the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).
“Two cadres have been declared dead after an exchange of fire between the security forces and the terrorists,” he said, adding two pistols and eight grenades were recovered from the site of the encounter.

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