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NEW DELHI, March 31 (UPI) -- Police in India's insurgency-hit state of Meghalaya launched operations to flush out separatist rebels from the state.
Police said they launched an offensive against armed rebels of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-IM and the Liberation Achik (tribal) Elite Force from the coal belt of West Khasi Hills district.
The operation, launched in consultation with the federal Interior Ministry, succeeded in the arrest of at least nine LAEF rebels and sympathizers. Security forces, supported by a special operation team, also seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, a police spokesman said.
Security agencies said they are concerned over the emergence of LAEF, allegedly backed by NSCN (I-M), for a separate independent Achik state for the Garo tribe.
They said NSCN-IM supplied LAEF with as many as 15 AK-47s, 25 automatic M20 pistols and three Universal Machine Guns, besides more than 100 hand grenades.
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