Haflong: Unidentified militants
today attacked a goods train and injured its driver near
Haflong in N C Hills district, official sources said.
The ultras fired from nearby hills on the goods train
coming from Lumding towards Silchar at around 1.30 pm at a
remote place between Lower Haflong and Maigrendisa railway
stations, the sources said.
The driver of the train of the Northeast Frontier
Railway suffered bullet injury in his leg and was admitted to
the Haflong civil hospital.
Railway and police officials rushed to the area, they
said adding that the identity of the insurgents was yet to be
ascertained.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, October 05, 2011, 15:18