AR foils terrorist attack
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 12 2022:
Troops of Chassad Battalion Assam Rifles of IGAR (South) in a joint operation with Army Bomb Disposal Squad foiled a terrorist strike along the Indo-Myanmar border on Friday.
In a release, PRO IGAR (S) informed that based on inputs of terrorists planning to infiltrate into India from Myanmar to target local populace and security forces, an operation was launched on March 10.On Friday, the explosive detection dog with one of the columns detected one IED which had been planted by the terrorists on a village track near Skipe village.
Thereafter, the Army Bomb Disposal Squad recovered and detonated the IED on the spot by carrying out a controlled detonation.
The timely neutralisation of IED foiled the nefarious designs of the Myanmar based terrorist groups and prevented possible loss of life and property, it added.