Grenade event in Assam, Udalguri District area, India on Tue 24th August 2021

On August 24, 60 militants belonging to newly floated National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB) surrendered before the Police with arms and ammunition in Assam’s Udalguri District, reports Northeast Now. At present, the surrendered militants are kept in a camp at Sonai Khowrang area of Udalguri District under Udalguri Police Station in Assam. According to sources, the surrendered militants deposited eight AK-56 rifles, two SLRs with magazines, four homemade pipe guns with three bottles of gunpowder, five HE-36 hand grenades with detonators, one F228 pistol with magazine, two 7.61mm pistols with magazines, one 7.65 mm pistol with magazine and 228 rounds of ammunition. This is the fifth time in a month that the militants of NLFB laid down their arms in Assam. Altogether 150 members of the outfit including NLFB chief, M. Batha have surrendered so far.