INDIA: At least 14 people are killed and nearly 40 wounded in a bombing in an Indian city

Record ID: 1377586

  • Title: INDIA: At least 14 people are killed and nearly 40 wounded in a bombing in an Indian city
  • Date: 22nd October 2008
  • Summary: (BN14) IMPHAL, MANIPUR, INDIA (OCTOBER 21, 2008) (ANI) (NIGHT SHOTS) (*** SOME FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) POLICEMEN AT THE SITE A BODY OF A WOMAN BODIES AT THE SITE POLICEMAN HOLDING A BIKE WHEEL TORCHLIT BODY MANGLED PORTION OF A BIKE MAN CRYING LOCALS AT THE SITE DAMAGED CAR BODIES BLOOD STAINS DAMAGED CAR AMBULANCE
  • Embargoed: 6th November 2008 12:08
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVABOMNSDT2T0V10A94N1K6QAC4D
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: At least 14 people were killed and nearly 40 wounded when a powerful bomb exploded on Tuesday (October 21) in India's troubled northeast.
    The device, thought to have been hidden in a bicycle near a high security police commando training centre in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, killed two people on the spot.
    A senior police officer said in Imphal that the dead were yet to be identified.
    Video footage showed severed limbs and body parts scattered outside the police training facility.
    Security forces cordoned off the area and bomb experts picked up broken pieces of metal for examination, while policemen tried to keep curious locals away.
    Tuesday's bomb attack was the most lethal in recent times in Imphal.
    Rebels frequently target heavily guarded residential areas of ministers and senior officials with bomb or grenade attacks.
    No separatist group has claimed responsibility for the blast but police suspect the separatist People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) carried out the attack.
    On Sunday, a grenade exploded close to Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh's heavily fortified residence but there were no casualties.
    Singh vowed to take stringent action against those responsible for the blast.

    "I condemn the act, whosoever is behind it. Stringent measures will be taken against this militant outfit. Government will decide on the compensation for the deceased and the injured," he said.
    A spokesman for PREPAK, which last month fired a shell at Singh's fortified house, on Tuesday said the group was responsible for Sunday's attack.
    India's northeast, comprising eight states, has seen separatist and tribal insurgencies for the past 60 years. Militant groups accuse New Delhi of plundering the region's mineral and forest resources but investing little in return.
    The region is home to more than 200 tribes and ethnic groups.
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