Agartala, July 15: A tribal youth, suspected to be a collaborator of the National Liberation Front of Tripura, was shot dead by militants of a rival outfit today. Two hardcore militants of the All Tripura Tiger Force gunned down 27-year-old Biswarai Debbarma this morning in Mandai village under Jirania police station of Tripura?s Sadar (East) subdivision.
Police sources said two armed motorcycle-borne Tiger Force militants arrived near a tea-stall in the Old Mandai market at 10 am and asked for Debbarma. When the youth came out, the rebels seated on the bike shot him dead from point blank range. He died on the spot.
The Mandai police outpost is located just half-a-kilometre from the market.
In a separate incident, tribal residents of remote Tuimadhu village under Teliamura police station captured two Tiger Force collaborators this morning and handed them over to the police. They were accused of extortion.
Police sources said the collaborators, identified as Ranjan Debbarma and Dhirendra Debbarma, had extorted Rs 500 as ?tax? for the outfit on Monday from one Prahlad Debbarma, a farmer of Tuimadhu village.