DIMAPUR, Oct 22 - The NSCN (I-M) today clarified that it had no hand in the ambush on an Assam Rifles patrolling team in Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday.
In a release, the �ministry of information and publicity� of the outfit said the NSCN had nothing to do with the ambush at a place near Sanliam village in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh.
�It is unfortunate that the media people simply gave report based on their own wild conjecture, blaming the NSCN,� the release stated.
It added that such an unhealthy practice by the media to link the NSCN (I-M) to the incident where one Assam Rifles jawan was killed, is highly dismissive.
The Army, in a statement on Wednesday evening, said that a soldier of the 6 Assam Rifles patrolling team, Babu Rao, was killed in the encounter with a group of insurgents. The attack took place around 8 am near Sanliam village, which is around 25 km from the district headquarters, Khonsa. This is the second attack carried out against the paramilitary force in Arunachal Pradesh this month.
A warrant officer of 19 Assam Rifles was killed and another injured in an ambush, allegedly carried out jointly by the NSCN (Khaplang), ULFA (Independent) and Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of the Revolutionary Peoples Front (RPF), in Changlang district on October 4.
