Assam Rifles soldiers killed in Manipur: Two suspects held, says police

NEW DELHI: Two suspects were detained connected Saturday successful transportation with an ambush connected an Assam Rifles convoy successful Manipur that killed 2 unit and injured 5 others, constabulary said.Security forces recovered a silver-blue van believed to person been utilized successful the Friday evening onslaught astatine Nambol Sabal Leikai, astir 10 km from the site, during operations successful Shantipur and Ishok areas."Security forces carried retired a monolithic cognition successful Shantipur and Ishok areas. Two persons were detained for further verification," the Manipur Police said successful a connection precocious connected Saturday, arsenic quoted by quality bureau PTI.Preliminary probe has identified aggregate erstwhile owners of the vehicle, and further inquiries are underway, according to police.The probe focuses connected the deadly ambush successful Manipur’s Bishnupur district, wherever unidentified gunmen opened occurrence connected an Assam Rifles convoy Friday evening, sidesplitting 2 unit and wounding 5 others.Defence PRO L Col M Rawat said that astir 5.50 pm, a conveyance carrying troops of 33 Assam Rifles, was moving connected the National road 2, adjacent to the airdrome “in a denotified area”, which refers to areas wherever AFSPA is not successful force, erstwhile bullets rained connected them.“In wide area, Nambol Sabal Leikai, the file was ambushed by unidentified terrorists connected the highway. In the ensuing action, 2 unit of Assam Rifles were killed successful enactment and 5 were injured who person since been evacuated to RIMS (Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal) and are presently stable,” Rawat said, adding that nary radical has claimed responsibility. Search operations were ongoing to apprehend the terrorists progressive successful the incident.