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“Preliminary report from the ground indicates that Sohan managed to escape from the gunfight, but the SWAT commandos are still continuing with the combing operation to track down the escaped rebels,” he said.
The Durama hill range is a vast, densely forested area in the Garo Hills which the GNLA and ULFA-I rebels have been using as a sanctuary. Sohan D. Shira, chief of the GNLA’s military wing, controls his rebels from Durama. The GNLA, fighting for a separate Garoland in western Meghalaya, has also forged an alliance with the Bangladesh-based rebel group, A’chik Special Dragon. It also has links with the ULFA and the NDFB.
Meanwhile, Meghalaya government has already sent a preliminary report about the recovery of huge cache of IEDs in past two days to Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), intelligence sleuths are now trying to piece together if there is a fresh threat to the internal security of the nation on the eastern frontier, military intelligence sources added.