Two persons injured in IED blast in Tripura

Two persons, including a BSF jawan, have been injured in an IED blast at Amar, a remote tribal hamlet bordering Chittagong Hill Tract of Bangladesh in North Tripura district.

Two persons, including a BSF jawan, have been injured in an IED blast at Amar, a remote tribal hamlet bordering Chittagong Hill Tract of Bangladesh in North Tripura district, police said on Friday.

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“The blast took place on Thursday when an IED planted by suspected insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) went off near a place where National Projects Construction Corporation (NPCC) personnel were engaged in barbed wire fencing,” DIG (police control) Nepal Chandra Das said.

Confirmed the report, BSF DIG A K Singh said, a BSF jawan and another person received minor injuries in the blast.

The ultras were trying to resist the fencing as it was posing a hurdle for them to enter the Indian territory from their base camp areas in the Chittagong Hill Tract in Bangladesh, Das said.