Landmine blast in Assam, 4 CRPF troopers killed

Militants, suspected to be from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland, triggered a landmine blast around 8 am when around 20 CRPF troopers were returning in a bus from an anti-insurgency training camp. At least four paramilitary troopers were killed and 15 injured in Holmari in Assam's Goalpara district. Listen to podcast

At least four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion on Friday in Holmari in Assam's Goalpara district.

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Militants, suspected to be from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), triggered a landmine blast around 8 am when around 20 CRPF troopers were returning in a bus from an anti-insurgency training camp.

The landmine was planted in the middle of a road surrounded on either side by thick forests in Goalpara district, about 130 km from Guwahati.