Overview
- The Army said attackers fired from a moving vehicle at the 19 Grenadiers’ Kakopathar post around 12:30 am and fled after troops returned fire.
- Security sources reported three UBGL rounds and roughly 30 minutes of automatic gunfire, with no civilian casualties.
- Injuries were described as minor abrasions and the personnel resumed duty after treatment, according to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
- A truck suspected to have been used in the assault was recovered near Tengapani on the Assam–Arunachal border, bearing registration AS 25 EC 2359, after the assailants reportedly fled toward Arunachal Pradesh.
- Joint Army–police searches are underway across the border belt, as coverage notes the Kakopathar strike followed an ambush on an Assam Rifles camp in Arunachal Pradesh and has been framed by media as part of a retaliatory ‘Operation Vengeance’ linked to a July Myanmar strike.