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Tripura: 'Terrorists may have monitored movement of police patrol'

Onkar Singh in New Delhi

Tripura Director General of Police B L Vohra on Monday said that the terrorists who gunned down 16 people in Singicherra village on Sunday evening may have carefully planned their operation to avoid clashing with a police patrol, which was posted nearby.

"Singicherra village is only three kilometers from the international border. A police party had been patrolling the village till 1700 hours (IST) and had just returned to its post when the terrorists attacked villagers rushing home after a hard day's work," he said.

He said the terrorists may have kept a tab on the movements of the police patrol party and struck only after careful planning.

Vohra, however, refused to identify any particular terrorist group as being behind the killing because two of them were known to operate in the area.

He said that the state police, along with the Assam Rifles and the Border Security force, has launched a massive combing operation to nab the culprits.

Talking to rediff.com from his office in the state capital Agartala, Vohra said, "Inspector General of Police K Salim Ali is supervising the combing operations in coordination with Deputy Inspector General of Police A K Shukla."

"Apprehending trouble, six companies of the police were sent as reinforcements because whenever tribals have been attacked, they retaliate by attacking the Bengali population," he said.

Vohra clarified that the incident has got nothing to do with the army pulling out of the Northeast to deploy its troops along the Indo-Pak border.

EARLIER REPORTS:
Tripura put on alert following Sunday massacre
Assam Rifles takes over Northeast operations

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