Staff Reporter
DIMAPUR, JUNE 1
ONE Assam police constable was injured in an early dawn attack on the Lahorijan Border Outpost, which is located barely a half-kilometer away from Dillai check gate, allegedly by “miscreants from Nagaland side.”
According to SDPO Bokajan, Shankar Raimedhi, “about ten to fifteen” unknown miscreants had opened fire upon the one platoon of Assam police personnel stationed inside the Border Outpost at around 2.50 am Sunday.
“Some miscreants from Nagaland side, we are not saying Naga miscreants, but some unknown miscreants from Nagaland side (numbering) about ten to fifteen people fired upon the BOP,” he told newsmen on Sunday outside Lahorijan Border Outpost.
The injured constable, he said, was standing sentry at the rear end of the BOP when he was shot on his right arm by the miscreants. “There was heavy firing from the other side. So we also started firing and most probably taking cover of the forest they fled,” the SDPO said.
The gunshots came from the rear end of the Outpost as well as from “the parallel end” towards the highway, he informed. “We don’t know exactly what the idea behind the attack was but as of now we are trying to do what we can,” he said in response to queries on the motive behind the attack.
The SDPO also declined to speculate on the identity of the miscreants. “It will be premature to comment on who is behind the attack now,” Raimedhi said.
He disclosed that Assam police had recovered five empty cartridges said to be of “AK-series ammunitions” while combing the jungles later in the morning. The miscreants had crossed into the border to fire.
“They came very close,” Raimedhi said while adding that the police were “able to hold the attack and make sure that nobody entered the BOP.”
The injured policeman, Constable Rajesh Teron was said to be out of danger and undergoing treatment in a hospital in Guwahati. The SDPO declined to spell out any immediate response from the Assam police to the incident which he termed as “unfortunate.”
