Imphal : The Army vowed to hit back hard on the militants who carried out an ambush which killed six Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur’s Chandel district on Sunday.
“In counter-insurgency operation it is a matter of initiative and opportunity.
They have been able to get this opportunity but it is not long before we hit back and we will hit back very hard,” Lt Gen Abhay Krishna, General Officer Commanding of 3 Corps, told reporters here.
The Army and Assam Rifles have been continuously running an intensive combing operation to trace the militants in the deep jungles near Indo-Myanmar border, where the incident happened on Sunday afternoon. Refusing to divulge details of the operations before the media, Krishna said the search was on in the jungles.
