Manipur attack: Combing operations on for militants, border security to be beefed up

Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said that security along the Myanmar border through which militants who ambushed the Assam Rifles personnel and family members are believed to have slipped in, would be beefed up.

The chief minister who laid wreaths on the bodies of an Assam Rifles Colonel, his wife, son and four other riflemen at Imphal airport, also said the home department and para-military forces had been instructed to bring the militants before justice at the earliest.

Officials said that a massive combing operation being jointly conducted by the para-military Assam Rifles and state police in the jungles surrounding the village of Sekhen where the ambush was laid, was on. Two militant groups – People’s Liberation Army and the Manipur Naga People’s Front -had on Saturday jointly claimed responsibility for the attack.