BSF alerted in Assam, Meghalaya sectors

An alert has been sounded after exchange of fire between the B'desh Rifles and BSF in Tripura.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has sounded an alert for its troops in Assam and Meghalaya after Sunday's exchange of fire between the Bangladesh Rifles and BSF at a border village in West Tripura district.

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A senior official of the BSF's Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland frontiers, headquartered said that the alert was sounded on Saturday evening immediately after the Tripura incident was reported.

No incident has, however, been reported so far in the Assam and Meghalaya sectors. The BSF guards the 557-kilometre Indo-Bangla border in the two states, he said.

An assistant commandant of BSF was killed and three others - two BSF jawans and a civilian - were critically injured when BDR personnel fired at the Indian village of Lankamura in West Tripura district.