Panic Grips Tripura After Discovery of Crude Bombs

Agartala, Jun 9, 2019:

Panic has spread across the state of Tripura following the recovery of two crude bombs

from Howrer bazaar area of Kailashahar and Gabtali village of Belonia in South Tripura

yesterday.

It may be mentioned that no arrest has been reported so far in connection with the cases.

Police said that the villagers early in the morning noticed a bomb wrapped with cello tape on the Kailashahar-Fatikroy road along with a bag and reported to the police. A few injection syringes and a handwritten letter indicating the plan of action was also recovered from the spot.

The bomb squad personnel defused it and launched an investigation into the incident is still going on.

It may be added that the Tripura Government has set up a committee to probe into incidents of political violence in the recent past.

A three-member committee with Tripura Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath as the chairman is constituted to investigate into the incidents and find out the culprits behind the violence. The committee will examine and make necessary recommendations.

In an official memorandum Additional Secretary of Tripura Government D Reang stated, “The state government has decided to examine all such cases in which the victims died due to political violence long before and the family members of victims are claiming for proper investigation of these cases so that actual culprits are punished as per provision of law.”

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