Bijay Sankar Bora
Tribune News Service
Guwahati, January 16
Armed insurgents set fire to nine crude oil carrying tankers at Namsik area in Jagun near Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary at Tinsukia district of eastern Assam on Tuesday night.
The DG of Assam Police, Mukesh Sahay suspected hands of Naga rebel group NSCN-K in the incident.
Police quoting tanker drivers who stood witness to the incident, said a group of armed militants who looked like tribal waylaid the 10 tankers that were carrying oil from Kharsang oil field in Arunachal Pradesh at Namsik in Jagun and forced the drivers and helpers of the vehicles out at gun point and set fire to the tankers pouring petrol.
The insurgents warned that it was a consequence of plying tankers without paying ‘tax’ and next time such tankers would be burnt along with the inmates.
The area is a stronghold of Naga rebel group NSCN-K and United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent).
The terror-struck drivers and helpers of the tankers have demanded heavy security escort through the route in future if they were to ply crude oil carrying tankers along it.
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