A soldier from the Assam Rifles was injured while diffusing an improvised bomb in Saitan village in Manipur’s Bishnupur district Friday morning, about 60 km south of Imphal, officials said.
A defence spokesperson said that the crude bomb was locally fabricated and the soldier who was trying to diffuse it did not suffer major injuries.
On Thursday, a policeman was killed and four others injured when suspected militants opened fire at them near Tera Khongfangbi also in Bishnupur district, about 50 km south of Imphal.
Since then, Manipur Police and army personnel had launched a combing operation to flush out the militants from the area, officials said.
The condition of one of the injured police personnel is critical, they said.
The incident took place a few km away from Torbung, where the recent violence in the state had first erupted.
Meanwhile, two persons were allegedly abducted by suspected militants in Toribung, a police officer said.
“The duo had gone to fetch foodgrains from their ransacked home when they were abducted. A search operation has been launched to trace them,” he said.
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A total of 128 columns of the Indian Army and Assam Rifles or nearly 10,000 soldiers have been deployed in the affected areas.
