northeastern Nagaland State, Friday and killed two soldiers in an ensuing firefight that left 23 people wounded, news reports said.
The Press Trust of India said those injured comprised 20 troops and three civilians. There was no immediate word on rebel casualties.
The news agency quoted police as saying the ambush was staged by seven or eight guerrillas of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland,
The rebels fired automatic weapons and hurled grenades at two ‘trucks carrying more than 40 soldiers along the Imphal-Ukhrul Road at Sokpao, near the border with Burma, about 1,100 miles east of New Delhi, the Press Trust said.
SEOUL, South Korea: Police arrested a 25-year-old college student Thursday for attempting to seize the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
Officials said Lee Ui-sup a senior at the Seoul City College’s Environmental Engineering Department, was picked up near the US. Embassy in downtown Seoul shortly after noon,
Lee was found in possession of a large US flag and 67 copies of a statement criticizing the government of President Chun Doo Hwan and the United States.
He later confessed that he and 10 other students were planning 10 storms the embassy compound when the main gate was opened, the officials said.
NEW DELHI, Indi An Air force jet crashed in a village in the northern state Haryana Wednesday, injuring five children and damaging a home, the Press Trust of India said.
The domestic news agency said the plane’s pilot ejected safely before the aircraft slammed into the ground in the village near Sirsa, about 150 miles northeast of New Delhi.
Five children were injured when the wall of a house hit by the jet collapsed, said news agency said.
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