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10 killed in landmine blast

By Barun Das Gupta

GUWAHATI, AUG. 5 Ten persons, including eight CRPF jawans, were killed when the truck in which they were travelling blew up after hitting a landmine suspected to have been planted by NDFB militants in the Bijni- Amguri road in Bongaigaon district of Assam today, official sources here said. The driver and handyman of the vehicle were also killed.

On July 31, the NDFB blew up a Bhutan Government truck on the Indo-Bhutan border in Kokrajhar district, killing five Bhutanese forest guards.

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