Students protest against attack on their school
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 06 2011:
Suspected UGs today fired at least two bullets at the gate of the Catholic School, Canchipur last night even as a failed bomb attack was launched at the house of the Dean of College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University (CAU) in other militancy related incident.
Suspects fired the gun at the gate of the Catholic School last night around 7.30 pm.
No casualty was reported in the firing but bullet marks hit the iron gate of the school.
Decrying the attack, students and teachers of the school marched a silent protest rally from their school campus upto the first gate of Manipur University.
They termed the attack as an act of cowardly people.
On the other hand, suspected UGs launched a failed bomb attack at the house of the Dean of CAU, Prof N Iboton at Iroishemba Maringthel yesterday around 6.30 pm.
The hand grenade was later safely defused by a team of bomb experts of the state police.
Police as well as the family of the Dean is yet to know the motive behind the failed bomb attack.