Militants target Armed Forces in Manipur
17 powerful bombs defused:
Imphal, Dec. 12: Seventeen bombs were recovered from two busy Manipur roads during a search operation by security forces on Wednesday morning.
The number is being pegged as the highest recovered by security forces in the militancy-ravaged state on a single day.
The immediate spur of the search was the visit of the director general of Assam Rifles, Lt Gen. Paramjit Singh, to Manipur.
Early this morning, troops of 34 Assam Rifles fanned out into Thoubal district for a routine search when they stumbled on three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted along the Imphal-Moreh road at Wangjing.
The bomb squad of the police safely exploded the IEDs later in the day.
The paramilitary force informed the police that they also recovered 14 IEDs laid by militants along Imphal-Ukhrul Road between Litan and Sangai and had destroyed them.
Recovery of the explosives held up traffic for several hours on both the roads. “Had the IEDs exploded, they would have caused immense disaster, as both the roads are always busy,” a source said.
The director general of Assam Rifles, who arrived here yesterday to review the law and order situation in the state, today visited Chandel, where the security forces have launched a rebel flush-out operation.
The Assam Rifles officers used a chopper to reach Chandel.
Combined forces of the Assam Rifles and the army launched an operation on November 18 to flush out United National Liberation Front militants from Somtal along the Indo-Myanmar border.
After having captured the UNLF-dominated Khenjoy and Sehlon ridges, the army is busy clearing Somtal of improvised explosive devices.
More than 68 IEDs were destroyed last month and the troops will continue their search till the area can be declared free of bombs.
The Assam Rifles source said the director general visited Sajik Tampak, once a rebel stronghold but now occupied by the security forces, and Somtal.
IG (South) Assam Rifles Maj. Gen. B.K. Chengapa accompanied the director general to Chandel.
Before leaving Imphal tomorrow, Gen. Singh will visit Tamenglong and meet Governor S.S. Sidhu.
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Imphal, Dec. 12: Seventeen bombs were recovered from two busy Manipur roads during a search operation by security forces on Wednesday morning.
The number is being pegged as the highest recovered by security forces in the militancy-ravaged state on a single day.
The immediate spur of the search was the visit of the director general of Assam Rifles, Lt Gen. Paramjit Singh, to Manipur.
Early this morning, troops of 34 Assam Rifles fanned out into Thoubal district for a routine search when they stumbled on three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted along the Imphal-Moreh road at Wangjing.
The bomb squad of the police safely exploded the IEDs later in the day.
The paramilitary force informed the police that they also recovered 14 IEDs laid by militants along Imphal-Ukhrul Road between Litan and Sangai and had destroyed them.
Recovery of the explosives held up traffic for several hours on both the roads. “Had the IEDs exploded, they would have caused immense disaster, as both the roads are always busy,” a source said.
The director general of Assam Rifles, who arrived here yesterday to review the law and order situation in the state, today visited Chandel, where the security forces have launched a rebel flush-out operation.
The Assam Rifles officers used a chopper to reach Chandel.
Combined forces of the Assam Rifles and the army launched an operation on November 18 to flush out United National Liberation Front militants from Somtal along the Indo-Myanmar border.
After having captured the UNLF-dominated Khenjoy and Sehlon ridges, the army is busy clearing Somtal of improvised explosive devices.
More than 68 IEDs were destroyed last month and the troops will continue their search till the area can be declared free of bombs.
The Assam Rifles source said the director general visited Sajik Tampak, once a rebel stronghold but now occupied by the security forces, and Somtal.
IG (South) Assam Rifles Maj. Gen. B.K. Chengapa accompanied the director general to Chandel.
Before leaving Imphal tomorrow, Gen. Singh will visit Tamenglong and meet Governor S.S. Sidhu.
Posted On: The Telegraph
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