IMPHAL, October 6: Just five days after a powerful IED explosion killed a police personnel in the heart of the city at a Durga Puja pandal, another explosion on Id-ul Zuha injured a person today.
Unidentified persons exploded an Improvised Explosive Device using a remote control device at Hatta this evening at 6:17.
The IED exploded near an electric transformer on the roadside of the New Checkon road at Hatta Makha Leikai in the middle of two police check posts. The spot is just a kilometer away from the police headquarter of the district.
It is also learnt that the explosive was planted among the garbage dumped near the transformer.
A team of Imphal East police commandos was conducting frisking and checking at Minuthong traffic point, while another team of the district police was also on duty at the other end of the road at the New Checkon traffic point when the bomb exploded.
The casualty was minimal as people had all returned home after the Id-ul-Zuha festivities.
The injured has been identified as Md Azad Shah, 38, son of (L) Md Nezamuddin Shah of Hatta Makha Leikai. He was hit by a splinter in between his right arm and chest and was immediately taken to the nearby Public Hospital for first aid.
Azad said he was standing on the first floor balcony of his house on the western side of the road after having food when the bomb exploded.
He said he not only felt pain after the bomb splinter hit him, but his right arm had also gone numb.
After doctors at the hospital said the splinter was lodged inside his body, he was referred to RIMS for further treatment. However, his condition is said to be out of danger.
Soon after the explosion, high ranking police officials of the district rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation, however no arrest in connection with the explosion has been made so far.
At the same time no one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, till the filing of this report.
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