Monday, September 21, 2009

Effigies being put on flames during the ongoing agitation following the July 23 incident

False bomb alarm sounded over parked van at Paona Bazar

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MPHAL, Sep 20 : An unoccupied Maruti Van, parked under the BT Flyover near Shamu Makhong, gave some anxious moments to the police this evening.
Suspecting that the vehicle might have been planted with explosives, police cordoned off the normally busy section of the Khwairamband Keithel from about 5 pm before bomb experts unlocked the vehicle (AR06B/0160) and searched it thoroughly three hours later.
A vehicle document (RC book) bearing the name of one Mahesh Kumar Sood of Thangal bazar has been recovered from inside the abandoned Van.
Prior to unlocking the vehicle, police teams went around the market place to find its owner but to no avail.
mortar shell found : Police have recovered a live mortar shell from near the Thangmeiband College Gate office of State unit Nationalist Congress party at around noon today.
meanwhile, locals of Uripok Khoisnam Leikai staged a sit-in-protest today in condemnation of the hand grenade attack by unidentified persons at the residence of PHED’s Assistant Engineer (Imphal East Circle) Pangambam Saratchandra late last night.