On Sunday morning, the authorities assured that some Assam Police commandos were injured during what is believed to be an assault by the militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) (ULFA-I) on a commando camp in the Tinsukia district. The security crackdown that is about to come before the next round of elections in the Assam Arunachal Pradesh border is the result of the ambush that happened in the Jagun region.

How the Attack Happened

The security sources said that they did not know who carried out the attack; the attackers concentrated massively on the Assam Police Commando Battalion camp in the Jagun 10-Mile region at around 2:00 a.m. They say that militants threw four or five rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) in a sudden attack and opened straight fire after that, a short-term fire was exchanged with the police officers. One of the officials clarified that the attackers later escaped to Arunachal Pradesh side of the border as it was a forested land.

At least, there are said to have been four Assam Police commandos who were injured in the explosions and the shooting sprees and were rushed to a Dibrugarh hospital. They have been called stable although the degree of individual injury is yet to be fully unveiled.

​ULFA-I Claims responsibilities.

ULFA-I has taken credit of the attack and identified it as Operation Bujoni in a statement made to the local media by the group. The uniform argued that the strike was meant as a retaliation to the activities that Assam Police and security forces were still conducting including the alleged drone attacks on its camps last year. According to the group, it was not interested to become antagonistic with individual police officers but it could not foretell that should they carry out further security operations, the situation may be shifted in the direction of further escalation.

The assault is less than three weeks before the first phase of the Assam assembly elections, which will be conducted on April 9, and is generally seen as an attempt by the outfit to determine how the state is well prepared to counter terrorist attacks and assert their presence in the region.

Security Response and Police.

The ambush also has seen the Assam Police and other security agencies undertake a massive search and combing mission in the forested borders in Tinsukia and other bordered districts. The senior police officers have stepped up the relationship with the Army and the paramilitary forces to seal possible entry points by the ULFA-I cadres. The local citizens at Jagun have been complaining about the tightening of checkpoints, patrol and instructions not to venture out late in the night without any purpose towards the forest belt.

​Rizzo and Northeast in Wider Perspective.

The Sunday incidence is one of the incidents in the series of the latest ULFA-I activities in eastern Assam. The same clothing was the suspected one in an assault in an Indian Army camp in the Kakopathar region of Tinsukia district in October 2025, where three of the soldiers were slightly injured. The security forces have been very active in the past year and have substantially intensified operations in the territory, including raids, arrests, and surveillance of drones and targeted ones as part of a more comprehensive counter-insurgency policy.

The recent attack points out the precarious nature of the security situation at least in certain parts of Assam despite the state government projecting a normalisation and development agenda. The political leaders and government have lamented on the violence and urged the citizens to be patient and believe security agencies are working to ensure that the criminals are arrested.