"Chinta Mat Karo": Assam Rifles' Daring Rescue Video Amid Ambush On Manipur Commandos

The insurgents hiding in a hill had ambushed a reinforcement convoy of the Manipur Police commandos on the highway between the state capital Imphal and the India-Myanmar border town Moreh on October 31

Videos have emerged of how the army's Assam Rifles troops rescued Manipur Police commandos pinned down by insurgents with heavy gunfire in an ambush on a highway, in a dramatic first-hand view of the daring rescue from inside an armoured vehicle.

The insurgents hiding in a hill had ambushed a reinforcement convoy of the Manipur Police commandos on the highway between the state capital Imphal and the India-Myanmar border town Moreh on October 31.

The commandos were going to Moreh, 115 km from Imphal, as reinforcements after a senior police officer was shot dead by an insurgent sniper while he was overseeing the construction of a helipad in the border town, which saw intense clashes between the hill-majority Chin-Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis in the past few months.

In the videos, which have been shared widely on social media too, a group of Assam Rifles troops inside an armoured Casspir mine-resistant vehicle slowly approached a bend on the highway. As soon as the road turned straight, a hail of bullets are heard ricocheting off the armoured vehicle. A long line of Manipur Police commando SUVs are seen on the side of the road, pinned down by insurgent gunfire from above the hill.