Two ULFA cadres were killed at an encounter with police and army in Bagsa distict of Assam on Wednesday midnight. According to information, the encounter took ppace at Gulabeel area at around 2 in the husday wee hous as police and army were launching a joint operation in the area acting on a specific information that two ULFA cades were hiding in the area. Police later, recovered a grenade, an AK-56 rifle and a pistol from the ULFA cadres. One of the deceased was identified as Samir Nath. Details are awaited.
PermalinkSubmitted by Pallavi Barua on Fri, 28/08/2009 - 02:13
It's really sad that Assam and the entire country as a whole is losing its Human Resource in this way.
Encounters (many a times cold-blooded murders) are doing away with the Potential Human Resource (PHR) all over.
There is misutilization by misguidance of this specific Resource, which holds hope for any society.
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