Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 23:
Unidentified persons set off a blast at the hall of Irabot Memorial Trust Complex located at Chalou under Lamlai police station this evening.
Significantly, the hall is to be used for an election related programme of CPI candidate Ph Parijat tomorrow afternoon.
Some local CPI workers were reportedly making the final arrangement for the said programme moments before the attack was launched, informed source said while adding that about 3/4 youths entered the hall and asked the people present there to vacate the same before triggering the blast.
there is no report of any injury.
Soon after the blast, a team of Lamlai police station scanned the site and managed to recover some bomb splinters, the source informed and added that further searches are likely to be conducted tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, two corpses deposited at RIMS morgue yesterday are yet to be identified till late today even as another body of a non-Manipuri was recovered this morning from a drain opposite to the morgue.
The bodies included one gunned down by troopers of 34 Assam Rifles at near Leirongthel under Yairipok police and another retrieved with multiple stab wounds from Lamdeng Khunou area yesterday.