AGARTALA, July 27: Fifteen traders, who were abducted by NLFT (Biswamohan faction) ultras from Kampui in North Tripura district on June 14 last, have returned from insurgent hideouts in neighbouring Bangladesh after their release, police said today, reports PTI. The outlawed insurgent group had kidnapped altogether 24 people mostly businessmen when they were on way to Kampui market in Kanchanpur subdivision, close to Mizoram and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
Police said the traders after their release by the insurgents entered into Indian territory through Bandharima in Jampui hills in North Tripura last night. Most of them were suffering from various ailments. The released persons first went to a remote BSF border outpost, Omar, near Khangtalang and the BSF personnel later handed them over to state police, they said.
Earlier, three abducted persons including two drivers had been released by the militants. BSF sources said the released persons told that the six others, also released by militants, were returning in a different route.