Three soldiers were killed and four others were injured in an ambush in Tirap district in southern Arunachal Pradesh, near the Indo-Myanmar border on Thursday.

According to NDTV, the attack took place at around 8:30am this morning near Old Tupi Village, about 530 km from capital Itanagar.

The soldiers in the four-vehicle convoy were going towards Longding when the attack happened.

The soldiers had reportedly moved from Lekhapani in Assam and were headed to Longding after staying overnight at a transit camp in Konsa.

Tirap and Changlang - bordering Myanmar - have seen militants groups trying to control stretches of territory to access camps in Myanmar.

National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang), a group which is fighting for a separate homeland for Nagas, recently abrogated a creasefire agreement with India, and has decided to embrace weapons again.