3 Assam Rifles men killed in border ambush

Imphal, July 30

Three Assam Rifles personnel were killed and six injured in an attack by suspected militants in Manipur’s Chandel district, Army sources said.

The miscreants carried out an IED explosion and opened fire on the Assam Rifles personnel while they were patrolling the Khongtal area in Chandel, near the India-Myanmar border, around 6.30 pm on Wednesday, sources said.

The bodies of three deceased jawans — Havildar Pranay Kalita, Rifleman YM Konyak and Rifleman Ratan Salim — have been sent to Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Imphal, for autopsy. The injured have been shifted to a military hospital in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district.

No outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. “The local administration and intelligence agencies are working to identify the insurgent group that carried out the attack on the patrolling party,” said a senior government officer. — Agencies