Bomb found at School

Imphal Jun 29 MNS/UNA : Suspected militants Saturday launched a failed bomb attack at a private school in Imphal which police suspect related with monetary demand from the school authority even though the principal of the school denied having serving monetary demand from any underground outfit. The hand grenade was lobbed at the COMET English […]

Imphal Jun 29 MNS/UNA : Suspected militants Saturday launched a failed bomb attack at a private school in Imphal which police suspect related with monetary demand from the school authority even though the principal of the school denied having serving monetary demand from any underground outfit.
The hand grenade was lobbed at the COMET English Higher Secondary School, Ghari in Imphal East in the early morning, around 6.30 am. It failed to explode.
Personnel of the state police bomb detection and disposal squad safely defused the Chinese made hand grenade and disposed off at an open place around 9 am.
This was the second time in which the militants attack the school with hand grenade in the recent time.
Decrying the bomb attack, students of the school staged a sit-in protest in front of the school campus with slogan “make education sector a free zone” by boycotting the class of the day.
Informing that today’s bomb attack was for the second time in the recent time, the principal of the school said that they had not received monetary demand from any underground organizations. It may be mentioned here that a group of KCP planted a bomb near the school gate of the school in January.
In a similar incident a bomb was found near the gate of Progressive English School, Wangjing Lamding under Thoubal Police this afternoon around 1.10 p.m.
Meanwhile public health engineering dept. workers and employees organization, Manipur expressed dissatisfaction as some persons hurled a hand grenade at the residence of EE, PHED Nongthombam Bipin of Khagempalli Panthak on June 27 around 7.15 p.m.
The workers also appealsed the concerned not to repeat such incident in future.

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