Refuting the “claims made by some terror groups that 10 army personnel were killed” in an ambush in Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh on August 29, the Indian Army through its PRO (Defence), Kohima, Col. C. Konwer stated that the claims were “absolutely devoid of any empirical facts.”
PRO further said it was also a clarification to several queries it had received, with regard to the claim, as well as to the news telecasted in various channels.
In the skirmish at Changlang district, with members of one of the outlawed groups, PRO said two army personnel suffered minor injuries.
“Army has been carrying out extensive area domination to prevent these anti-national groups from carrying out there activities with impunity and preclude any possibility of allowing them to create trouble in the region,” PRO stated.
It said that such false narrative has been spread by these terror groups with an ulterior objective of undermining the security forces and to create terror and panic among the peace loving populace of the region.