Terrorists release 3 Tripura hostages after 17 days
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Thu, Dec 24 2020 16:33 IST |
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Agartala, Dec 24 : Three persons kidnapped from Tripura by members of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have been released after 17 days of captivity in adjoining Bangladesh territory, police said on Thursday.
However, small-time trader Litan Nath, 35, still remains untraced 28 days after his abduction at gunpoint by tribal guerrillas from Malda Kumar Para, a remote village in northern Tripura along the Tripura-Mizoram border, on November 27.
A senior police official said that faced with mounting pressure from Border Security Force and other paramilitary and state forces, the NLFT militants released the three kidnapped persons on Wednesday night in a mountainous forested area along the India-Bangladesh border.
Even as security forces continued their combing operations to rescue three workers kidnapped on the India-Bangladesh border, police and BSF officials suspect the abductees might have been taken by terrorists to the neighbouring country as the .