High-level meeting on regarding the Manipur ambush. A meeting between Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval underway. Army Chief Dalbir Singh also reaches the Home Ministry for the meeting.


Using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, a group of insurgents today ambushed a military convoy in Manipur killing at least 20 army personnel in the worst such attack in recent years.


Eleven army men were also injured in the ambush, an army spokesman said.


A team of 6 Dogra Regiment was on a road opening patrol as part of its daily routine along Tengnoupal-New Samtal road, about 80 km from Imphal, when it was attacked by an unidentified insurgent outfit first with a powerful Improvised Explosive Device, a police official said here.


After the IED blast, the insurgents resorted to heavy firing at the convoy of four Army vehicles with RPGs and automatic weapons, Army sources said. "20 army men were killed and 11 injured in the attack," army spokesman Col Rohan Anand said in Delhi.