Video: Bullets Whiz Past Assam MLA, Others Amid Gunfire In State Border

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed concern over the incident and asked senior police officer GP Singh to go to the area and monitor the situation

A Congress MLA in Assam, his security officers and others came under intense gunfire in a forest in Jorhat district, along the state border with Nagaland. Visuals of the attack show the MLA and the others running in the jungle as bullets whizzed past them. The gunfire came from the Nagaland side of the state border, a senior police officer said. Three reporters were also injured in the incident, sources have said. "Mariani MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi along with his personal security officers and others had gone to check encroachment from the other side at Dessoi valley reserve forest, when suddenly they were fired upon from the other side. They managed to escape from the area," the officer said. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed concern over the incident and asked senior police officer GP Singh to go to the area and monitor the situation.