Two Assam Rifles personnel were killed and four others injured on Saturday in an ambush by insurgents in Mon area of Nagaland near the India-Myanmar border. The injured were given medical treatment immediately and their condition was stable. Efforts were on to identify the militant group responsible for the attack and combing operation was launched to track them down.
Giving details of the incident here, military sources said it took place at about 1.30 pm when a patrol of the Assam Rifles in two vehicles was subjected to an improvised explosive device(IED) blast. The militants then opened fire and in the ensuing gun fight a junior commissioned officer(JCO) and a soldier were killed while four others were wounded. The attack took place near border pillars 147 and 148 in Mon area of Nagaland along the India-Myanmar border.
This attack comes days after Arunachal Pradesh MLA Tirong Aboh and his son besides eight others were killed in an ambush by suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland(IM) insurgents on Tuesday last in Tirap district of the State. The Indian Army along with the State police has launched a massive operation to hunt down the perpetrators of this incident which saw a group of more than 15 to 20 insurgents waylaying the four-vehicle convoy of the MLA.