A Sashastra Seema Bal jawan on election duty in Nagaland died in a road accident on Wednesday morning. Atul Kumar was part of polling party that was travelling from Thokoknyu to Tuensang.

Some of the others in the vehicle were also injured, ANI reported.

More details about the accident are awaited.

The Nagaland Assembly elections concluded on Tuesday. One person was killed and two others injured in clashes between supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Naga People’s Front in Akuluto constituency in Nagaland’s Zunheboto district on Tuesday. However, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha said one group belonged to the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, and not to the BJP.

Earlier on Tuesday, a bomb blast at a polling station in Mon district injured at least one person.