GR team comes under PLA attack in Bishnupur
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Imphal, November 26 2013: An ROP team of 6/8 Gorkha Rifles of Loktak Brigade had a narrow escape in a bomb attack at Kiyamba Shanglen Forest area in Bishnupur district early Tuesday morning.

RPF/PLA has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a statement, Chief of Department of Publicity of Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) Bangkim said that the attack was carried out a Special Warfare Team of PLA, the armed wing of RPF, as part of its ongoing fight against the Indian security forces to liberate Manipur.

The attack came hours after a jawan of 40 Assam Rifles was killed in an IED explosion at Keishampat in the heart of Imphal city yesterday.

The bomb planted on the roadside as a booby trap near the main gate of Kiyamba Shanglen Forest went off as the Army personnel who were on a patrol duty reached the site.

They escaped the attack unhurt.

In a swift action after Tuesday's attack which happened around 6 am, Bishnupur district police commandos reportedly nabbed two top women leaders of an underground outfit .

Meanwhile, the body of Rajeev Kumar Sharma, who was killed in the Keishampat explosion yesterday, has been taken to his native state after post mortem examination.

The 24-year-old 40 Assam Rifles jawan who hailed from Himachal Pradesh, succumbed to the injuries at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) later in the evening.

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