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Nine killed in gunbattle in India`s Tripura

IRNA

Guwahati, Nov 18, IRNA -- At least seven militants were killed and 
two more, including a woman rebel and a federal soldier, critically 
injured in separate gun battles in India`s troubled northeast, 
officials said on Tuesday. 
A police spokesman said two tribal separatists belonging to the 
outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were killed in an
encounter Monday by security forces in western Tripura. 
Troops raided a house and a fierce encounter took place with 
militants firing at the soldiers from inside the house, a police 
official said in Tripura`s state capital Agartala adding the troops 
retaliated by killing two separatists. 
A woman rebel and a soldier were injured in the encounter, while a
rebel trying to escape was arrested. 
In another incident in Tripura Sunday night, two NLFT rebels were 
killed when they clashed with the rival All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)
separatists. 
Both the NLFT and the ATTF are fighting for independent tribal 
homeland in Tripura and carry out their hit-and-run guerrilla strikes 
from bases in adjoining Bangladesh. 
India and Bangladesh share a 856 kilometer long unfenced border 
along Tripura state. In the adjoining state of Assam, three militants 
belonging to the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were 
killed in an encounter Sunday. 
Police recovered AK-56 rifles and grenades from the dead rebels. 
The ULFA is fighting for an independent homeland in Assam and carry 
out their strikes from bases inside adjoining Bhutan. 
More than 20,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in 
Assam and Tripura during the past two decades. 
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