Manipur blast : One Assam Rifles trooper killed, two others injured

The incident took place at a security check point of Ramva Assam Rifles under Shangshak police station in Ukhrul district at around 7-20 am.

In the explosion Rifleman Biju Sorubuwar was killed on spot and two others injured.

The injured were identified as Havildar Yash Pal Singh hailing from Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir and Rifleman Nihar Ranjan Das from Kendrapara district of Odisha. They were immediately airlifted to a military hospital at Leimakhong near Imphal.

Meanwhile, no insurgent group has claimed responsibility.

The dead trooper was from Lathow No - 1 village under Naoboicha police station in Assam's Lakhimpur district.

Top police and army officials with additional forces rushed to the area to locate the attackers.

But a top official of Manipur police said that, the militants might have escaped to their camps in Myanmar.

Meanwhile, security measures have been beefed up in the area following the explosion.

It is the fifth militants attack on security forces in the north eastern Indian state since May last.
On June 15, one Assam Rifles trooper was killed and four others wounded in a powerful explosion triggered by the suspected militants in Ukhrul district.

Militants attacked on a petrol party of the para-military force with a remote control bomb blast when the team returned to their Kasom post near Hundung in the bordering district with Myanmar.

In the militant attack five Assam Rifles personnel were injured and they were airlifted to the militanry hospital at Leimakhong near Imphal, where an Assam Rifles trooper succumbed to his injuries and he was identified as Havildar Lohit Gogoi.

On June 3, three security personnel, including a Junior Commanding Officer (JCO) of Assam Rifles, were injured in a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion at the junction of H Mongjang village near Khudengthabi along the National Highway 102 in Imphal-Moreh road.

On May 19, at least four Manipur police commandos and Manipur Rifles jawan were injured in an powerful IED blast triggered by suspected militants in Manipur’s Chandel district.

The explosion took place between Kwatha and Khudentabi area on Imphal-Moreh road, some 10 kms from the Indo-Myanmar border town of Moreh, when two vehicles of Manipur police commandos and Manipur Rifles jawan were escorting Parliamentary Secretary (Home), Manipur, L Susindro Meitei, returning from Kwatha.

On May 8, an army jawan was killed and three others including a Junior Commanding Officer ( JCO) were injured in a powerful IED blast at Moreh in Manipur along the Indo-Myanmar border.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)