Dibrugarh, June 12 : Ulfa militant Akon Sonowal was gunned down during an encounter with the police at Uvotajan village near Krishna tea estate under Digboi police station in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district today.
The rebel hailed from Mahadevpur police station area in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Police recovered one 9mm pistol, four live rounds and empty rounds from the site of the encounter, that took place around 11.45am for around 10 minutes.
A police official said the Ulfa cadres in a Maruti van opened fire on the police team that was conducting a search operation.
“There was a case of a Maruti van theft from Tinsukia last evening. We have some information about the presence of the same vehicle in the Digboi area. We got information that Ulfa might be using the vehicle and put up pickets at various locations. The encounter took place at one such picket,” he said.
Intelligence sources had hinted at the entry of at least two heavily armed groups from Myanmar into Upper Assam.
An army officer was injured during an encounter with such an Ulfa group a couple of days ago at Digboi.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had yesterday said the Ulfa is continuing extortion and recruitment at a time the government has expressed its desire for talks.
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