{"id":3262,"date":"2011-04-03T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2011-04-03T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:03:44","slug":"rebels-kill-3-troopers-in-assam-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/04\/03\/rebels-kill-3-troopers-in-assam-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebels kill 3 troopers in Assam ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>GUWAHATI, April 2 (AFP): Tribal rebels shot dead three paramilitary troopers and injured four others in an ambush on Saturday in Assam, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Heavily armed militants belonging to the Karbi People?s Liberation Tigers attacked a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force near Rongshuli village, east of Assam?s main city of Guwahati, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police personnel were returning after visiting a polling station when they were ambushed by militants using automatic weapons,&#8221; senior police official A. Das told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The oil-and-tea-rich state of Assam holds elections this month.<\/p>\n<p>Three troopers were killed on the spot and four suffered multiple injuries, Das said, adding the clash between police and militants was still underway.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group is active in the hill district of Karbi Anglong and is demanding more autonomy for the Karbi tribes people in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Four constituencies in the Karbi Anglong district go to the polls in the first phase of polling on April 4.<br \/> At least 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in Assam state because of fighting between government security forces and various rebel groups.<\/p>\n<p>India has been wracked by rebel conflicts since its independence in 1947 with deadly insurgencies embedded in its northwestern Kashmir region and the northeast.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/QHzh-CeI4nk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/QHzh-CeI4nk\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/QHzh-CeI4nk\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, April 2 (AFP): Tribal rebels shot dead three paramilitary troopers and injured four others in an ambush on Saturday in Assam, police said. Heavily armed militants belonging to the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/04\/rebels-kill-3-troopers-in-assam-ambush-2\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[61,330],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-brief-news","tag-kanglaonline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}