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  • One dies, 4 hurt in IED blast in Manipur as migrant workers from Bengal targeted

    By Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: A construction worker was killed and four others – all of them from West Bengal – were injured in an IED blast at a community hall in Manipur’s Thoubal district in the wee hours of Monday.

    The victims were rushed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Imphal. Later, one of them, Pankaj Mahato (21), succumbed to his injuries.

    The four others were stated to be out of danger. They were identified as Aroop Mandal (30), Souvik Patra (18), Aporva Mandal (25) and Rajesh Ramaanik (19).

    The police suspected the IED was detonated with a remote control device. The victims were asleep when the attack was carried out. They were hired by a private firm to construct a water tank.

    Chief Minister N Biren Singh condemned the blast. He said targeting the innocent, who were working for Manipur’s development and their livelihood was an act of cowardice.

    The motive behind the attack was still not known. The police said they were probing the incident.

  • CRPF officer, jawan injured in IED blast carried out by Naxals in Bihar

    By PTI

    PATNA: A CRPF officer belonging to its CoBRA commando unit was critically injured along with a jawan after Naxals triggered an IED blast in a forest in Bihar’s Gaya district on Friday, officials said.

    Assistant Commandant Vibhore Kumar Singh suffered serious injuries in both his legs in the blast that took place in the Chakrabandha forest, about 100 km from here.

    Head Constable Surendra Singh was also injured in the improvised explosive device (IED) blast.

    The Maoists also believed to have fired on the patrol team of the 205th Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), they said. The incident took place around 5 pm.

    The security personnel accompanying the injured are trying to evacuate them to the nearest road head as a rescue chopper could not land due to darkness, they said.

  • Two ITBP personnel injured in Manipur IED blast

    By PTI

    IMPHAL/NEW DELHI: Two personnel of border guarding force ITBP were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in poll-bound Manipur on Sunday, officials said.

    The incident was reported around 8 pm in the Wangoo Tera area of Kakching district, about 45 kms from state capital Imphal. Constables Gaurav Rai and Girija Shankar have been injured in the blast, they said.

    An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) party along with a state police personnel were conducting an area domination patrol when the blast took place, they said.

    The troops were part of the ‘E’ company of the 610 ITBP election battalion deployed for poll duties in the state.

    The injured troops are stated to be out of danger and have been admitted to the Kakching civil hospital. Assembly elections in the northeastern state will be held in two phases on February 28 and March 5. Counting of votes will be held on March 10.

  • Chhattisgarh: CRPF jawan injured in IED blast in Bijapur district

    By PTI

    BIJAPUR: A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED), planted by Naxals, exploded in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, police said.

    The incident occurred around 11.30 am on Awapalli-Basaguda route under Basaguda police station limits, where a team from the CRPF’s 168th battalion was out on a road security and area domination operation, a senior official said.

    When the patrolling team was cordoning off the route near Timmapur village, head constable Shilachand Minj inadvertently stepped on the pressure IED connection, triggering the blast, he said.

    The jawan, who sustained injuries on his legs, was shifted to the CRPF’s local field hospital, where his condition is stated to be out of danger, the official said.

    A search operation is currently underway in the area, he added.

  • Assam-Mizoram border row: Two more blasts inside Mizoram

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: A day after a suspected IED blast was carried out inside Cachar district of Assam allegedly by miscreants from Mizoram during an eviction drive, two back to back explosions took place on Sunday along the inter-state border on the side of the neighbouring state, a police source said.

    Tension is running high in Khulicherra area of the district, where people from Mizoram have reportedly entered up to 6.5 kilometres inside Assam land a few days ago, following which the Assam Police along with civil administration carried out an eviction drive.

    “Two blast sounds were heard coming from the Mizoram side at 2.40 am and 2.43 am. The CRPF, which is a neutral force deployed at Khulicherra Point-II, has been asked to enquire into the suspected blasts on the Mizoram side,” an Assam Police source told PTI.

    The situation is at present normal although tension still prevails and Assam Police personnel are in alert position in the entire border area, he added.

    On Saturday, an explosion took place targeting a delegation of Assam government officials, including senior police officials, who were on a visit to oversee the construction of a road along the border, but no casualty was reported in the incident.

    Initially it was believed to be a grenade attack but the police later suspected that the miscreants used an IED, the source said.

    Additional Director General of Police (Border) Harmeet Singh is camping at the spot and monitoring the situation.

    Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he has written to his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga to settle the border dispute by using satellite mapping of the actual border locations.

    “For complete peace, we should hand over the inter- state border to central police forces after we fix the border issue. We are building roads within the Constitutional boundary of Assam. We will not take an inch of land from Mizoram,” he added.

    There has been a long border dispute between Assam and Mizoram in that area along with other locations in Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts of the Barak valley.

    The latest tussle started on Saturday when around 25- 30 people from Mizoram came up to 25 metres ahead of Khulicherra CRPF camp and tried to encroach the land inside Assam, attempting to stop the forest track clearing work and prevent PWD officials from constructing a road, a senior police official said.

    “On receiving the information, the police rushed to the spot and observed that Mizo people, including women, obstructed the route at Khulicherra leading towards Upper Painom LP school which is around 6.5 kilometres inside Assam- Mizoram border.

    “The crowd swelled up to 50-60 civilians. Around the same time, one Additional SP rank officer of the Mizoram Police arrived at the spot and he was asked to remove the illegal encroachment by Mizo people. However, the obstruction was not removed,” the official told PTI.

    Assam Police officers then announced over loudspeakers that their congregation inside Assam territory is illegal and they should disperse peacefully, but they continued their aggressive and abusive behaviour towards government officials on duty and kept threatening them with sharp weapons, he claimed.

    “They had also erected wooden barricades, preventing legitimate movement. After the persuasion attempts were not responded positively, Assam Police personnel moved ahead to clear the encroached land using minimum force. As a result, the encroachment up to the first bridge over Dholakhal Khulicherra stream was cleared and a temporary camp has been set up to prevent further incursions,” the official said.

    He said that the superintendent of police and Additional SPs of Kolasib district on the other side of the border were called for a discussion and they were asked to stop these incursions by removing their people from the encroached land inside Assam territory up to Khulicherra Pt- II.

    But it was not implemented by them on the ground, he said adding that the Mizoram police have also set up a temporary camp on the other side of the bridge over Dholakhal Khulicherra stream.

    Last year, a school of upper Painam was bombed allegedly by miscreants from Mizoram badly damaging it.

     

  • Police officer killed in IED blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: A head constable was killed and another policeman injured when Naxals detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Tuesday, police said.

    The incident took place around 9.30 am under Kutru police station area, located around 450 km from Raipur, when a team of security personnel was out on an area domination operation to ensure security to road construction work underway there, a police official told PTI.

    While the patrolling team was cordoning off a forest near Ambeli village, around four km away from Kutru, Naxals triggered the IED blast, he said.

    Head Constable Kalendra Prasad Nayak was killed, while constable Kamal Thakur received splinter injuries in the explosion, the official said.

    The injured policeman and the body of the head constable were being shifted to Bijapur, he said, adding that search operation was still underway in the area.

  • Maoist commander killed while planting IED in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

    By Express News Service
    RAIPUR: A Maoist militia commander was killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion that he was planting to target the security forces in the strife-torn district of Bijapur, about 400 km south of Raipur, a senior police officer said.

    “The Maoist, identified as Sunil Padam, was killed in an IED blast. He was an IED expert in Bhairamgarh Area Committee of the banned organisation. The rebels through the IED had planned to harm the forces deployed to provide security to the ongoing road construction works in the region,” said Kamal Lochan Kashyap, Bijapur district superintendent of police.

    Following the explosion, the other rebels abandoned the body of the deceased cadre and escaped into the nearby forest.

    There is no report of any injury sustained by the troopers. The body of the Maoist has been sent for the post-mortem.

  • ITBP jawan killed in IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-affected Narayanpur district

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: An ITBP jawan was killed in an IED blast on Friday in Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-affected Narayanpur district, officials said.

    Head Constable Ramter Mangesh of the 53rd battalion of the force was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the Maoists exploded in the Kohkameta area of the district.

    The incident took place around 5 PM when an Indo-Tibetan Border Police team was out for an operation.

    The jawan hailed from Nagpur in Maharashtra, they said.

    On Thursday, a Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) jawan was killed when a pressure IED, planted by Naxals, went off in Dantewada district of the state.

    In Jharkhand, a Naxal-triggered IED blast in the forests of the state’s west Singhbhum district had also killed three security personnel and two injured on Thursday, officials had said.

  • CAF head constable killed in IED blast planted by Naxals in Dantewada

    By ANI
    DANTEWADA: A Head constable of the 22nd battalion of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) was killed in a pressure improvised IED blast on Thursday in Dantewada’s Pahurnar area.

    The IED was planted allegedly by Naxals in the area.

    “A Joint team of Dantewada District Reserve Guard (DRG) and CAF 22 Bn were out on an area domination and for surveilling a bridge construction near Pahurnar across the Indrawathi river in the morning.” P Sundarraj IG Bastar said.

    “At around 1 pm, head constable Laxmikant Diwedi of 22 Bn stepped on a pressure improvised IED and got seriously injured in the blast. Later he succumbed to his injuries,” said Sundarraj.

    “He was on surveillance duty for construction of the bridge when the incident happened,” the IG said.

    Laxmikant Diwedia was a native of Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh. 

  • Two jawans killed, three injured in IED blast triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: Two jawans of Jharkhand Jaguar were killed and at least three others were seriously injured in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Chaibasa on Thursday morning. 

    According to the police, the encounter with Maoists is still on while the injured police personnel are being airlifted to Ranchi.

    Sources in the police department said that the incident took place when a joint team of Jharkhand Jaguar and CRPF were on a regular search operation in the Toklo jungles of Chaibasa.

    The deceased jawans have been identified as Hardwar Shah and Kiran Auron, while those injured are Devendra Kumar, Deep Topno and Nikku Oraon.