GUWAHATI: Police in Tripura arrested 10 guerrillas after they entered the country from bases inside Bangladesh, police said on Friday. A police spokesman said the rebels were members of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) and were arrested late Thursday near Hirachara village close to the border with Bangladesh.
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“There were specific reports about a group of HNLC rebels entering our side of the border from Bangladesh and we managed to capture 10 of them,” Nepal Das, a senior Tripura police official, said. “The arrested rebels said they crossed over to the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh in 2002 and that nearly 200 HNLC cadres were based in camps located there,” the police official said.
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The HNLC, a rebel group in the adjoining state of Meghalaya, has been fighting for a homeland for the Khasi tribe. Police seized several mobile phones, Bangladeshi currency, wrist watches, medicines and documents from the arrested militants. “The border between Tripura and Bangladesh is being used by northeastern militants as a safe corridor,” he said. New Delhi claims that more than 100 camps and shelters of northeastern rebel groups have been established in Bangladesh. Dhaka denies any presence of Indian separatists in the country.
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