Two tribal leaders killed in Tripura

AGARTALA, SEPT. 23. Two leaders of a tribal wing of ruling Left Front were killed and another abducted by insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and seven persons were injured in an explosion in separate incidents in the State, police said today.

The ultras raided Manu village in Dhalai district last night and picked up one Bichitra Tripura, secretary of district committee of Tripura Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (GMP), tribal wing of ruling Left Front from his house and chopped him to death after dragging him from his house.

The ultras then called Champaranjan Tripura, also a GMP member, from his house in the same village and killed him in the same manner. The insurgents, while fleeing, kidnapped one Birendra Tripura, a member of the party from the same village, police added.

In another incident, ultras hurled crude bombs at a bus carrying the staff of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council at Jirania in west Tripura district yesterday injuring seven persons.

- PTI

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