Nagaland, 4 May: Militants here kill 8 Assam Rifles Jawans and injure six other in an ambush. Militants initial triggered a robust impermanent device (IED) and commenced indiscriminate firing.

Eight Assam Rifles personnel were murdered, six disjointed and according to the reports another four missing on Sunday once militants triggered a robust blast and ambushed a convoy of the force at a far off location in Nagaland on the border with Asian nation, Army officers aforementioned.

The incident came about at Changlang Su space in Mon district around a pair of an hour, once the troopers were continuing to their company camp from Tobu space. An Assam Rifles official aforementioned the vehicle carrying the personnel and a water tanker had gone to a close-by place to fetch water. At Changlang Su, the militants initial triggered a robust impermanent device (IED) at the vehicle and commenced indiscriminate firing.

“Eight Assam Rifles troopers were killed and 6 others disjointed within the attack. Four troopers square measure according missing,” Nagaland police captain LL Doungel told IANS over the phone. Of the six wounded troopers WHO received bullet injuries, 2 were in vital condition, Doungel told IANS.

The Assam Rifles official aforementioned there have been over twenty personnel within the vehicle. “Our forces retaliated however eight of our jawans were killed on the spot whereas four others have suffered injuries. they need been taken to a hospital associated an operation has been launched in and round the space,” he said.

The militants attacked the troopers with rocket propelled grenades, a Nagaland police official aforementioned. Assam officers suspect the Nazi Council of Nagaland-Khaplang to be behind the attack. The militant dress had just unilaterally abrogated the ceasefire issue with the union government that held over there. Additionally, last month, the outfit had initiated directly with the security forces in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.