Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 06 2010:
Unidentified persons carried out bomb attacks at the private residences of two State Government officials today.
In the first attack, miscreants triggered a hand-grenade blast in a residential compound near Loklaobung bridge at around 3.40 am today.
The attack was apparently intended to hit the residence of Youth Affairs and Sports Director Bobby Waikhom for another hand grenade was recovered by police from the official's residence at around 11 am.
The house where the blast occurred located on the northern side of Bobby Waikhom's house.
Condemning the attack, YAS employees staged protest demonstration at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex later in the afternoon with women folk of Loklaobung area also denouncing the blast by staging sit-in-protest.
On the otherhand, police also recovered a hand grenade from the Nagamapal Kangjabi Leirak residence of Social Welfare Department's Project Officer namely S Achouba.
Police speculate that the explosive device might have been lobbed the previous night.