Imphal Jun 29 MNS\/UNA : Suspected militants Saturday launched a failed bomb attack at a private school in Imphal which police suspect related with monetary demand from the school authority even though the principal of the school denied having serving monetary demand from any underground outfit.
\nThe hand grenade was lobbed at the COMET English Higher Secondary School, Ghari in Imphal East in the early morning, around 6.30 am. It failed to explode.
\nPersonnel of the state police bomb detection and disposal squad safely defused the Chinese made hand grenade and disposed off at an open place around 9 am.
\nThis was the second time in which the militants attack the school with hand grenade in the recent time.
\nDecrying the bomb attack, students of the school staged a sit-in protest in front of the school campus with slogan \u201cmake education sector a free zone\u201d by boycotting the class of the day.
\nInforming that today\u2019s bomb attack was for the second time in the recent time, the principal of the school said that they had not received monetary demand from any underground organizations. It may be mentioned here that a group of KCP planted a bomb near the school gate of the school in January.
\nIn a similar incident a bomb was found near the gate of Progressive English School, Wangjing Lamding under Thoubal Police this afternoon around 1.10 p.m.
\nMeanwhile public health engineering dept. workers and employees organization, Manipur expressed dissatisfaction as some persons hurled a hand grenade at the residence of EE, PHED Nongthombam Bipin of Khagempalli Panthak on June 27 around 7.15 p.m.
\nThe workers also appealsed the concerned not to repeat such incident in future.<\/p>\n\n