The militants were captured by locals, armed with country-made rifles, who were hot on their heels after they (the militants) terrorised a local woman earlier on the day.
" Divided into six groups, the local volunteers pursued the Bru militants and one group captured them from the jungle late in the afternoon and handed them over to the police," a source from Bairabi said.
A woman of Bairabi town in Mizoram near the Assam border was allegedly terrorised by the two armed men, suspected to be Bru militants, around 1200 hrs in a jungle near Bairabi today.
Sources said the woman Lalthianghlimi and her husband went to their jhum and took rest on their way home. The woman then went to collect bamboo shoots inside the jungle. These two armed men suddenly appeared and started threatening her at gun point.
Even though they stuffed her mouth with a piece of cloth, the woman still maanaged to scream.
On hearing his wife’s cry, the man, with some non-Mizo labourers rushed to the jungle. The two armed men managed to flee the scene.
The incident took place inside Assam territory under Hailakandi district.
After the militants were handed over to the police, the angry locals gathered in front of the police station demanding to 'see' the militants. A police official, who talked over phone from Bairabi, hoped to keep the situation under control.
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