SHILLONG, FEB 3: Williamnagar jail warden Sarai Singh Thabah succumbed to the bullet injuries early Sunday morning even as the district authority has established that the jail attack on Saturday night was by the ANVC (B) and not the GNLA as was suspected. The assistant jailor Neil Warjri had died on the spot even as Thabah sustained grievous bullet injury and was rushed to the hospital.
However on Sunday morning East Garo hills deputy commissioner Vijay Kumar Mantri informed that Thabah succumbed to the bullet injury at around 2.30 am Sunday. He also revealed that the ANVC (B) and not the GNLA was behind the Saturday attack on Williamnagar jail.
Mantri told this website Sunday, “Combing operations by the SWAT and COBRA team to locate and nab the militants responsible for the attack and killing of the two jail staff is still going on.”
The ANVC (B) militants had stormed the Williamnagar jail and shot dead the assistant jailor Neil Warjri and seriously injured the warder Sarai Singh Thabah on Saturday at around 9 pm.
It is learnt that the ANVC (B) militants randomly open fire outside the Williamnagar jail and on hearing the firing outside both the assistant jailor and the warden came out to check as to what was the firing all about. However, the militants opened fire at both of them and Warjri died on the spot while Thabah suffered grievous bullet injuries near the gate of the jail compound.
The militants then fled away. All the jail inmates are said to be secured as none of them got the chance to escape.
The revelation that the attack on Williamnagar jail was orchestrated by the ANVC)B) and not the GNLA militants has surprise many as the group was part of the talks held between the ANVC, ANVC(B) central and the state governments to bring about a lasting peace in Garo hills.
ANVC (B) chairman Rimpu Marak was part of the ANVC (B) delegation who attended the peace talk held in Shillong last month.
The attack coming just few days before the February 23 Meghalaya assembly election is seen as an attempt to instill a sense of fear on the voters. Earlier the ANVC (B) had disrupted a meeting of the former Meghalaya deputy chief minister and the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) working president Deborah Marak.- By Our Reporter
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