CRPF jawan dies as militants fire at train

Guwahati: One CRPF jawan was killed and 10 passengers were injured when suspected militants of Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Gorlossa faction) fired indiscriminately at a running train at Wagrendisa in Assam’s North Cachar Hills district on Friday afternoon. The condition of a Railway Protection Security Force jawan was stated to be critical.
The militants sprayed bullets from automatic weapons at the engine and coaches of the train, which started from Badarpur and was bound for Lumding, S. Hajong, chief public relations officer, Northeast Frontier Railway, told The Hindu. The engine came to a halt as its water tank and water circulation pipe were damaged in the firing. CRPF jawan Anil Tiwari died on way to hospital.
The incident came on the heels of an attack on the convoy of an election observer at Gunjum between the district headquarters town of Haflong and Umragnshu on Wednesday morning.
The outfit, in a media statement on Thursday, clamped a “ban” on train movement, and work on the ongoing gauge conversion project of the NF Railway and the East-West Corridor project of the National Highway Authority of India in the district. It also clamped a ban on electioneering there by the Congress until the party promised to rename the district Dima Hasao Raji.