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Six security personnel injured in fresh Darjeeling violence

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IANS Darjeeling
Last Updated : Jun 30 2017 | 12:07 AM IST

There was fresh violence in north Bengal hills on Thursday night, as Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists attacked a police-CRPF patrol party, injuring six security personnel in Teesta Valley, and ransacked a police outpost.

Two police vehicles were burnt by the irate GJM supporters, who snatched an SLR as also a nine mm pistol in the Rangli Rangliat police outpost area in Darjeeling district.

Four CRPF troopers and two state police constables were injured in the attack.

Two of the security personnel were serious, police said.

The attackers used stones and traditional Nepali knives.

--IANS

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First Published: Jun 29 2017 | 11:56 PM IST

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