New Delhi: The army inflicted "heavy casualties" on the insurgent NSCN(K) group during "retaliatory" fire along the India-Myanmar border in the early hours of the morning, the Eastern Command said on Wednesday. "Firefight occurred along Indo-Myanmar border at 0445 hrs today," the Eastern Command said.
The official Twitter handle of the Command also said that the Special Forces of the Indian Army has inflicted heavy casualties on NSCN(K) cadre in the counter-insurgency operation.
The Command said that no Indian personnel was injured in the attack.
"A column of the Indian Army while operating along the Indo-Myanmar border was fired upon by unidentified insurgents. Our troops reacted swiftly and brought down heavy retaliatory fire on the insurgents. The insurgents then broke contract and fled," said the army statement.
"Own troops reacted swiftly and brought down heavily retaliatory fire on insurgents. The insurgents then broke contact and fled from the spot. As per inputs, a large number of casualties were suffered by the insurgents. Own troops suffered no casualties," the statement added.
It also asserted that Indian troops "did not cross the international border".
Army sources maintained that it was "not a surgical strike".
The operation has taken place exactly a year after India carried out a surgical strike on terror camps in Pakistan. In surgical strikes against Pakistan, Indian Army soldiers had crossed the Line of Control and targeted terror 'launch pads' along the border.
Two years ago, the army had targeted terror camps just over the border with Myanmar in a rare strike that the government said showed its resolve to fight terrorism beyond the country's borders. The raid was carried out in retaliation for the killing of 20 soldiers in an ambush in Manipur.
(With inputs from PTI)
