The road on which the ambush took place passes through a dense forest, sources said, adding used wires and batteries were recovered from the area.
Striking for the second time this week, NDFB (D) militants today triggered a powerful IED blast, killing four CRPF personnel and injuring over 30 others, 10 of them seriously, in Bhalukbudi in the district today.
The militants exploded the IED through a remote control placed under a bus carrying a CRPF team to Goalpara town from Agiya where they were on a routine patrol duty at around eight am, District Superintendent of Police Louit Aind said.
Today's attack is the second major assault on central paramilitary forces in a week after the same NDFB (D) killed four jawans of the Sashastra Seema Bal and injured two others in an ambush at Amlaiguri in Chirang district bordering Bhutan on Monday.
The injured were admitted to the Goalpara Civil Hospital, while the 10 seriously wounded were referred to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Aind said.
The road on which the ambush took place passes through a dense forest, sources said, adding used wires and batteries were recovered from the area.
The attack was a show of strength by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (D) whose chairman Ranjan Daimary, lodged in Goalpara district jail, and his followers recently vowed to continue their movement for a separate Bodoland, sources said.
A massive search operation has been launched for the attackers, Aind said.
Earlier this month, the anti-talk faction had blown up a railway track at Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar district, killing a six-year-old boy and injuring 12 others.
On Monday, SSB men from their Salmara unit were similarly ambushed by a remote-controlled IED put under their vehicle before being fired upon.
The SSB jawans were deployed to guard the 267-km Indo-Bhutan border along Kokrajhar, Udalguri, Chirang and Baksa districts falling under the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam.
The job of the central force is to check the movement of militants to and from Bhutan from where 30 of their camps were demolished during the Royal Bhutan Army's crackdown on the ULFA, NDFB and Kamtapur Liberation Organization under an operation codenamed 'Operation All Clear' in December, 2003.
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