(KUNA) -- A top insurgent of outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was killed and another injured in an encounter with the Army in Tinsukia district in Indias Northeastern state of Assam Saturday. The encounter took place at Kulabari, in upper Assam's Tinsukia district this afternoon, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The slain insurgent was identified as 'Corporal' -- Dhaman Chetia and the injured as Amjad Chetia -- both belonging to ULFA's "28 battalion", the news agency said, quoting an official of the Assam police.The outlawed ULFA wants to create a "sovereign Assam" carved out of India and is waging an insurgency since 1979. It has little public support in Assam and most of its top leadership are reported to operating from neighbouring Bangladesh. New Delhi has often raised with Dhaka the issue of the presence of Indian Insurgent Groups from Northeast including ULFA on Bangladeshi soil and urged the authorities to act against the ULFA leadership based there.
Leading US think tank Stratfor, few months back, in a report -- India: ULFA Abandons Peace Talks -- had said that ULFA was keen to work with groups like Bangladesh-based Harkt-ul-Jihadi-Islami in India's Northeast and has begun to outsource terror operations.