Mizos Attack Army Outpost
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NEW DELHI, March 10. Mizo tribesmen launched heavy attacks against Army outposts in the
jungles of eastern India yesterday, the Associated Press reported.
An Assam Government spokesman said that Mizo National Front (M.N.F.) warriors struck small Army detachments along the Mizo districts frontier with Burma and East Pakistan. The New Delhi Government, which described the situation as well in hand on Tuesday released no details of the latest fighting, but a spokesman in Shillong, the State capital, said the Army was suffering casualties. He said one 46-man patrol of the Assam Rifles was ambushed while trying to reach the rebel-held town of Lungleh. Only one junior officer and five soldiers escaped to their base at Demagiri. Demagiri, on the East Pakistan border, was under
attack, but the garrison was bolding out, he said. The Mizos, skilled jungle fighters, had heavy casualties, he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 11
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