Imphal: Two Assam Rifles personnel were injured in a powerful blast by suspected militants in the Keisampat area here early on Wednesday.
The bomb, planted in a two-wheeler, exploded at 9 AM in a crowded bus terminal, barely one km away from the police headquarters, official sources said.
The two Assam Rifles troopers were on routine patrolling when the blast hit them in the Keisampat area, a few kilometres from the Manipur Police headquarters.
The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital where the condition of one of them was stated to be serious, sources said. Top police officials rushed to the area. Their condition is stated to be stable, an Assam Rifles official said.
A security alert has been sounded and Keisampat has been cordoned off, Imphal district police chief Konsam Jayanta Singh told IANS.
He said preliminary reports suggested that the blast could have been triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device.
“We have found the wreckage of a scooter from the blast site,” he said.
No arrests had been made so far, he added.
Though no rebel group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, Manipur Police and intelligence officials said the blasts were carried out by rebels.
On Monday, a youth was killed in a village of Manipur’s Thoubal district after a bomb, suspected to have been planted by militants, went off at his house. (Agencies)