Aizawl, April 10: Mizoram police have identified the slain Bru militant in Tripura as Thankima, the main accused in the murder of a Mizo youth in November last year.
The dead body of Thankima was recovered inside Tripura near the Mizoram border last week.
A special investigation team who immediately rushed to Tripura, have identified the militant as Thankima for whom they have been hunting for months, police sources said here on Monday.
According to Mizoram police, Thankima was the kingpin in the gunning down of Zarzokima, a 17-year-old youth of Bungthuam village in Mamit district in western Mizoram on November 13, 2009.
”He was the person who actually pulled the trigger,” a source in the police said.
Police sources said Tripura police are investigating the case to find who had killed Thankima.
The Mizoram police had arrested six persons in connection with the Bungthuam killing which had triggered communal violence between Mizos and Brus, forcing hundreds of Brus to flee to the neighbouring Tripura last November. (UNI)
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