
4 insurgents held in Manipur
The Hindu
Sophisticated guns recovered by police team
In a breakthrough, a combined team of Imphal east district police and police commandos have recovered sophisticated guns after arresting four insurgents, according to N. Herojit, the Imphal east police Superintendent. He said that acting on intelligence inputs about the presence of some tribal rebels who were allegedly involved in the extortion of railway construction companies and vehicles plying along NH 2, which connects Manipur with Assam via Nagaland, security measures were beefed up on Thursday night. The four rebels were arrested from New Chekkon in Imphal east district. The four, said to be cadre of Zeliangrong United Front (Kamso group), were nabbed. They were identified as D. Golmei, G. Ruangmei, J. Golmei and Makindin Golmei.
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