A powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and a detonator were seized from three persons in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Monday.
Imphal West district superintendent of police (SP) K Meghachandra said that they were basically acting on a tip-off, Manipur police commandos conducted checking of vehicles on the Moreh-Imphal highway and seized explosives.
There are reports floating around of Police arresting two persons who brought the explosives in the vehicle. The SP said the two persons had received the consignment from a cadre of banned outfit PREPAK in Myanmar”s border town Tamu and were delivering them to a person in Imphal’s Telipati area.
Based on their confession, another man was arrested and an IED, a detonator, a remote control, two 9 volt batteries, ammunition and a mobile phone was seized from his possession.
It also needs to be mentioned here that, on January 23 2020, a powerful explosion rocked Manipur’s Imphal West district on Thursday leaving a minor girl injured. The injured girl was rushed to a hospital.
During that time the police stated, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blew off in front of a clothes shop at the Lalambung Makong area on RIMS road at around 4.55 am on Thursday.