| A police constable was killed and four others were injured when insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) attacked a police camp at Maithulungbari in south Tripura district on Friday, the local media reported on Friday. Police said a group of about 25 NLFT insurgents, clad in olive green uniform and armed with sophisticated weapons, raided the camp of the Special Police Officers (SPO) at Maithulungbari, a remote tribal hamlet, at about 4:00 am (local time) in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura. The SPOs and police personnel, after being fired upon by the ultras, retaliated. In the 30-minute long encounter, the ultras killed a constable and injured four others. Among the four injured, three were admitted to the Tripura Sundari district hospital where their condition was described as critical. Any information about casualties on the ultras' side was not available. |