Explosion kills two Armymen in Assam
Guwahati: A colonel and a jawan were killed when suspected militants of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) blew up a vehicle in which the Army men were travelling, in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district in the wee hours of Monday.
Defence spokesperson at 4 Corps headquarters at Tezpur, Colonel Rajesh Kalia, told The Hindu that the incident occurred at a place under the Chariduar police station of the district, about 10 km from Bhalukpung, on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
The two-vehicle Army convoy — a gypsy and an ambulance of a Field Ambulance Unit of 5 Mountain Division — was proceeding to Tenga in Arunachal Pradesh. He said electric wires about 40 metres in length were recovered from the blast site. This suggested that an improvised explosive device (IED) was activated manually with battery cells by militants who must have been hiding in the nearby jungle.
The deceased Army official, S.M. Perumal of the Army Medical Corps, hailed from Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. He had returned to Tezpur on Sunday from an official trip to Bangalore. The jawan, who was driving the gypsy, has been identified as Ashwini Kumar, who hailed from Bahadurgarh tehsil in Rohtak district of Haryana, Col. Kalia said.
Defence sources said the Army personnel in the ambulance saw Col. Perumal’s gypsy being tossed several feet into the air.
The bodies were brought to the Tezpur Civil Hospital for post-mortem.
Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain told the Assembly that it was suspected to be the handiwork of the anti-talks faction of the NDFB. In reply to a question, the Minister said 43 NDFB militants were killed in encounters with the Army, police and the Central paramilitary forces in the last four months. He also tabled a list of names of 27 of them. Sixteen were yet to be identified.
Earlier, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) member Padma Hazarika, while drawing the attention of the government to the incident, alleged that the militants were running a parallel government in the Chariduar area of the district.
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Guwahati: A colonel and a jawan were killed when suspected militants of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) blew up a vehicle in which the Army men were travelling, in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district in the wee hours of Monday.
Defence spokesperson at 4 Corps headquarters at Tezpur, Colonel Rajesh Kalia, told The Hindu that the incident occurred at a place under the Chariduar police station of the district, about 10 km from Bhalukpung, on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
The two-vehicle Army convoy — a gypsy and an ambulance of a Field Ambulance Unit of 5 Mountain Division — was proceeding to Tenga in Arunachal Pradesh. He said electric wires about 40 metres in length were recovered from the blast site. This suggested that an improvised explosive device (IED) was activated manually with battery cells by militants who must have been hiding in the nearby jungle.
The deceased Army official, S.M. Perumal of the Army Medical Corps, hailed from Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. He had returned to Tezpur on Sunday from an official trip to Bangalore. The jawan, who was driving the gypsy, has been identified as Ashwini Kumar, who hailed from Bahadurgarh tehsil in Rohtak district of Haryana, Col. Kalia said.
Defence sources said the Army personnel in the ambulance saw Col. Perumal’s gypsy being tossed several feet into the air.
The bodies were brought to the Tezpur Civil Hospital for post-mortem.
Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain told the Assembly that it was suspected to be the handiwork of the anti-talks faction of the NDFB. In reply to a question, the Minister said 43 NDFB militants were killed in encounters with the Army, police and the Central paramilitary forces in the last four months. He also tabled a list of names of 27 of them. Sixteen were yet to be identified.
Earlier, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) member Padma Hazarika, while drawing the attention of the government to the incident, alleged that the militants were running a parallel government in the Chariduar area of the district.
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