The militants also looted arms and ammunition from the slain jawans.Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) K Salim Ali said that Inspector General of BSF's Tripura, Cachar and Mizoram frontier B C Goel, K Nagraj, DIG Dhalai SP Nepal Das, have rushed to the spot along with a huge contingent of para military forces and launched a massive combing operation to nab the guerillas.

A red alert has been sounded in the Dhalai and North Tripura districts the authorities have asked the security forces to maintain maximum vigil in the areas. The IGP said the twelve BSF personnel were moving in two vehicles along the Bangladesh border. The area is terrorist prone. The guerillas fired from their automatic weapons on the second vehicle killing all the eight jawans on the spot.The jawans travelling in the first vehicle could not retaliate as they were moving at a high speed and were some distance away from the second vehicle.

This was the third militant attack within the month on security forces and government officials. On September 22, four Assam Rifles jawans and their civilian driver were killed by NLFT militants at Kupilong village in south Tripura when the jawans were going to pick up tribal students for a school run by Assam Rifles.