Three injured in attack

Three persons, including a village headman and a woman, were seriously injured in an attack by suspected miscreants from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh in Assam's Sonitpur district today, police said.
Armed miscreants entered the residence of the village headman of Naharjan near Behali reserve forest early this morning and opened indiscriminate firing injuring three including the headman Lala Orang, his son Himant Orang and a woman Baha Chare.
The injured have been admitted to Guwahati Medical College Hospital, about 300 km from the incident site.
Senior officials of the district administration, police and forest officials rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation.

Sonitpur Superintendent of police Sanjukta Parashar said the situation was under control.
The area had witnessed frequent incidents of attacks and violence allegedly by miscreants since January this year following which Assam government decided to set up six border outposts and construct a new road through Behali reserve forest.
Parashar said that construction work of border outposts was going on.