AGARTALA: After a long break of about eight years, unidentified men gunned down two BSF jawans and looted their service weapons in an early morning attack on Tuesday at the distant RC Nath area along Tripura’s eastern border with Bangladesh.
The area is under Chawmanu police station of Dhalai district. The police suspect the hand of the banned NLFT militants, who they said crossed the border to Bangladesh.
The dead jawans have been identified as sub-inspector Bhuru Singh and constable Raj Kumar of the 64 battalion of BSF Tripura Frontier. A massive search operation to track down the killers is underway.
While Singh hailed from Panipat district of Haryana, Raj Kumar was from Aland, a town in the Kalaburagi district of Karnataka. The BSF has arranged to send their bodies by Air India flights to their respective states via Kolkata on Wednesday. Sources said the BSF personnel had gone out for routine patrolling around 6.30am. While both the jawans stepped out, unidentified men opened fire on them which left them seriously injured. The gunmen fled, snatching an AK-47 with live rounds of ammunition and a pistol with loaded cartridges from the injured jawans. Other jawans rushed to the spot hearing the sound of gunshots and found Singh and Raj Kumar bleeding profusely. Both died on the way to the camp.
