Silchar, May 14 -- A 46-year-old man from Manipur's Tamenglong district was killed and two police personnel were injured in an encounter with police on Thursday morning in Assam's Cachar district, officers said.

Police identified the deceased as Sailen Daungal, a former member of the Manipur-based extremist group United Kuki National Army (UKNA), who was allegedly involved in an attack on Assam Police near the inter-state border last week, in which a constable sustained bullet injuries.

"Daungal was one of the members of the drug peddlers' group which attacked our officials last week and as per our records, he was also a former militant in Manipur," Lakhipur's co-district superintendent of police Prithviraj Rajkhowa said.

He said Daung...