Two injured in IED blast near Bangladesh border

Agartala (PTI): Two persons, including a jawan of Border Security Force (BSF), have been injured in an improvised explosive device blast at Amar, a remote tribal hamlet bordering Chittagong Hill Tract of Bangladesh in North Tripura district, police said on Friday. 

DIG (police control) Nepal Chandra Das said the blast took place yesterday when an IED planted by the 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. 

When contacted, BSF DIG A.K. Singh said, a BSF jawan and another person received minor injuries and were given first aid. 

BSF personnel engaged in escorting construction workers intensified patrol in the area, the DIG said. 

Mr. Das said, the ultras were trying to resist fencing because it was posing a major hurdle for them for entering Indian territory from their base camp areas in the Chittagong Hill Tract.

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