Seven CRPF personnel were killed by the guerrillas of a tribal militia in the North Cacher Hills district of Assam on Friday.
The rebels also snatched the weapons of all the slain security-men. Additional police and paramilitary forces reached the scene after the incident and launched a combing operation to nab the militants.
The district’s Superintendent of Police (SP) B B Chhetry said that the militants had apparently targetted the commandant of the 50th battalion of the CRPF.
He himself escaped unhurt, but the bodies of seven other paramilitary personnel were riddled with bullets. CRPF commandant P K Chhetry was travelling from the paramilitary force’s battalion headquarters in Haflong to remote Daiyang Mukh in a three-vehicle-convoy. “The convoy was ambushed by the militants between Dihangi and Thaijuari.
