AGARTALA, May 8 — The toll in the death dance by insurgent groups in Tripura rose to 33 today with two persons succumbing to their injuries at the GB Hospital here in the wee hours today, police said, reports PTI. The two — Suradhani and Sanjoy Sarkar were among the six injured in the shootout Wednesday by the banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) at Satcharri, a border village of West Tripura district which claimed the lives of 19 others.
Another 10 persons were killed by suspected insurgents of proscribed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) armed with automatic weapons who opened fire at Moharcherra market and in a nearby village fair. Eight persons were killed on the spot and two of the five injured died on way to the hospital Wednesday night.
A couple was shot dead by the outfit at Radhanagar village under Kumarghat police station of North Tripura district in the wee hours Wednesday. The ultras also kidnapped one person on their way back to Bangladesh. Tripura State Rifles and Assam Rifles are patrolling the affected Satcharri and Moharcherra areas, where tension continued to prevail, official sources said.
An extensive search operation has been launched in different vulnerable areas of the state and BSF has tightened their vigil along the 840-km-long porous border so that the ultras could not sneak into Indian territory from their camps in Bangladesh, the sources added. PTI