Shillong, Aug 13: Unidentified militants have attacked a police station here two days before Independence Day injuring a constable. The attack took place at around 11 pm last night when militants lobbed a grenade at Mawlai police station premises.
The constable injured in the attack was rushed to the Civil Hospital here, where his condition is out of danger, police said. The attack on Mawlai police station, regarded one of the sensitive ones in the Meghalaya capital, came in the backdrop of the general alert sounded by the administration in view of the Independence Day celebrations.
The number of militants who came on to attack the police station was yet to be confirmed, police said. Bureau Report