Police detect IED
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 05 2015 :
Manipur police averted a major tragedy as they detected a 5 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Sagolmang area on the outskirts of Imphal.
Official sources said Saturday the powerful bomb, which contains nails, ball bearing and 2 kg of RDX, was found by a team of Sagolmang police station at Irol Yotpi Pukhao Laipham in Imphal East around 3 pm yesterday.
They believed that the IED, planted by suspected militants to target security forces in the area, was a remote control one which was retrieved by a Manipur police bomb disposal squad and later defused on the foot of a hillock nearby the same evening.
On the same day, a self-styled sgt of NSCN-K was apprehended by a combined team of Imphal West district police commandos and 12 Bihar Regiment from Konthoujam Maning Leikai during counter-insurgency operation.
An official release from the PRO of Manipur Police Department informed that the NSCN-K leader has been identified as Ponthanglung Panmei ,49, hailing from Tamenglong district's Noney Part-I .