Three troopers of 11 Assam Rifles were seriously injured while on patrol when militants exploded a powerful bomb near H. Bongyang village, six km from the Manipur-Myanmar border on Saturday afternoon, police said.
The injured security personnel, one junior commissioned officer and two riflemen, were airlifted to the military hospital in Leimakhong near Imphal. All the three are battling for their lives, according to police.
They were on patrol after coming out of their camp at Khudengthabi when the roadside bomb was detonated by a remote control device. The militants are believed to have escaped to their camps across the border before the arrival of reinforcements.
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