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Lethod bomb fired at CM’s bungalow, no one hurt; PREPAK claims attack, roads in vicinity closed

IMPHAL, Sep 1: The heavily guarded state chief minister’s bungalow was attacked by PREPAK militants with a lethod bomb which exploded inside the bungalow compound tonight at around 8.10 pm.The proscribed PREPAK while owning up the attack has said that it was a warning to the chief minister, O Ibobi Singh to rectify his misdeeds.Following the blast, security in and around the Babupara area has been beefed up and all roads leading to the chief minister’s bungalow have been closed to all kinds of traffic.The lethod bomb exploded inside the chief minister’s residential compound tonight at around 8.10 pm. No casualty or injury was caused to people inside the bungalow.Chief minister O Ibobi Singh and his family were in the bungalow at the time of explosion.Police officials investigating the attack suspect the lethod bomb was fired by militants from the northern side of the bungalow along the main road.The bomb exploded in a small paddy field cultured at the north western side inside the compound.The explosion was not so loud and the CRPF personnel guarding the bungalow remained confused for about 10 minutes before they realised there was a blast.Only after they saw smoke rising from the blast side did the security personnel come to know that it was an low intensity explosive devise that had blasted.Officials of the state police department led by the additional DGP, A Romenkumar and additional SP Imphal west and personnel of the police bomb squad rushed to the chief minister’s bungalow complex immediately after the blast and inspected the site.The police bomb squad personnel recovered some splinters of exploded lethod shells from the blast site during their investigation.On hearing the news of the blast inside the bungalow many cabinet ministers rushed to the bungalow. Media persons who converged at the bungalow to get information were barred from entering the bungalow by the security at the spot.While police are still making all out efforts to trace the responsible militant group who carried out the attack, the proscribed PREPAK informed the media over telephone that the attack was carried out by its special task force.A spokesperson of the outfit said that the attack was a warning to the chief minister O Ibobi Singh for the mistakes he had committed and if the chief minister continued to carry on with his wrong deeds the outfit would keep on attacking him.Mention may be made that this attack is the second time the same militant group targeted the chief minister’s bungalow. In October last year, they had exploded another lethod bomb inside the bungalow. In the meantime, following the blast, security has been stepped up in and around the chief minister’s bungalow by detailing additional security forces from police commandos, CRPF ad Assam Rifles.All roads leading to the chief minister’s bungalow were closed for traffic just after the blast.Entry of people has been barred from Sanjenthong from the Palace Compound side, from Moirangkhom on the Indo-Myanamar road, Keishampat on the Tiddim road and from Kangla western gate onward from north AOC side on NH-39. (COURTESY:IFP)

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