Imphal: Militants lobbed a powerful grenade at the residence of Manipur Irrigation and Flood control Minister Ngamthang Haokip in the heart of Imphal town but it failed to explode, officials said on Saturday. The grenade was hurled by two militants at Haokip's house at New Chekon area, amid tight security deployment in Imphal West district, at around 7 pm on Friday but it did not explode. The militants escaped under the cover of darkness.
Haokip was not present at his residence at the time of the incident, said the officials adding that his family members were, however, inside the house. Talking to reporters at his office on Friday evening, Haokip said police bomb experts later removed the grenade and wondered why security personnel could not detect movement of ultras, moving with explosives in high security Imphal area. The Minister said the pin of the grenade was found outside the fencing of his wall though the grenade fell in his bedroom. Haokip said some Kuki militants had earlier threatened him with dire consequences if their monetary demand was not met.
Meanwhile, newly-formed Kuki National Front-N (KNF-N) Publicity Secretary Gou Vaiphei told local media that they were responsible for the grenade attack at the minister's house. He said the outfit had demanded money from the minister for "some party fund" but he refused to pay the amount. The minister said he had applied for government accommodation in the high-security Babupara ministerial complex but was yet to get it.
10:19 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Baga: Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. The fighting in Baga began on Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday,...
06:40 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Imphal: A labourer was killed and two others seriously injured when militants exploded a powerful grenade at the house of a government contractor in Imphal West district of Manipur, officials said today. While chasing the militants, police fired at them in which a man, who was driving a car, was injured. Hospital sources said his condition is out of danger. Two militants, who came on a two-wheeler, lobbed a powerful...
02:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Melbourne: An 11-year-old girl brought a hand grenade to her class in an Australian school for a 'show and tell' activity on Wednesday, prompting evacuation of over 500 students and teachers. Police were called to Hunter Christian School in Sydney after a teacher discovered the girl had brought a "pineapple" hand grenade, a model of weapon used in the World War-II and the Vietnam War. Some 450 students and 60...
11:45 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Kokrajhar: One person was killed and four others were injured when unidentified persons lobbed a hand grenade at a busy place in Assam's Chirang district on Wednesday evening, officials said. The miscreants came in a car and hurled the grenade towards a group of people around 6.30 pm near a wine shop at the railway crossing in Basugaon town, they said, adding one person died on the spot while four...
09:43 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Guwahati: At least three persons were injured in a grenade blast in lower Assam's Bongaigaon township on Tuesday night. "Three persons were injured when unidentified miscreants hurled a grenade near the Indian Oil Corporation point in the heart of Bongaigaon town," Assam's IGP (Law and Order) LR Bishnoi told PTI. The miscreants escaped after the blast at 8:40 pm and their identity was yet to be established, he said. On...
10:33 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Guwahati: A CRPF personnel killed after a grenade targeting the central forces exploded at busy Paltan Bazar area in Guwahati on Saturday evening. Ten persons were also injured in the attack. The grenade was hurled by two persons at the central security forces near the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) ticket counter adjacent to the Paltan Bazar police station at 7:00 pm, said sources. The injured were immediately rushed to...
08:47 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Guwahati: Ten people, including two policemen, were injured in a bomb blast triggered by the outfir ULFA at Doomdooma in Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. The bomb planted on a footpath near a departmental store at Gandhi Chowk exploded around 6:45 pm, the police said. The injured included passersby besides the two policemen on duty nearby, the sources said and were taken to the civil hospital. Police and security...
08:44 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday released shocking footage from CCTV cameras which suggested militants used teenaged boys to lob grenades at security forces in public places. The visuals bring to light how minors are being pushed into militancy in Kashmir. The video allegedly shot in Sopore shows two boys pushing a handcart and collecting scrap. In the process they carry out a recce for the militants. They are...
09:42 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two people were killed and four injured in a grenade attack on a tourist tempo in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. The attack is being seen as an attempt to target tourists in the state. The incident took place in the Bijbehera area on Saturday afternoon. ...
02:42 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Srinagar: Terrorists on Wednesday fired a rifle grenade at the civil secretariat here, the seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, official sources said. The grenade, however, did not explode. The ultras fired the grenade at the civil secretariat at around 12.35 pm, which landed inside the premises, the sources said. They said the grenade failed to explode. A bomb disposal squad has been called in to neutralise the explosive. While...
02:23 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Jammu: Security forces have busted a major militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir, recovering a huge quantity of automatic rifles, ammunitions, grenades and powerful explosives, an Army official said on Saturday. After receiving intelligence inputs about the terrorist hideout in the forests of Marmat area of Doda district, around 170 km from Jammu, a joint team of 10 Rashtriya Rifles and police conducted the raid Friday evening, army spokesperson Colonel...
10:19 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A senior CPI(M) member created a flutter in the Kerala Assembly on Monday by displaying two teargas grenades, allegedly used by police to disperse a student protest in Thiruvananthapuram last week. Speaker G Karthikeyan and Home Minister Thiruvanchur Radkahrishnan took strong exception to the conduct of EP Jayarajan, who exhibited the grenades while accusing police of "brutally" suppressing the protest organised by his party's campus wing Students Federation of...
01:24 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Guwahati: At least two people have been injured in a grenade blast in Guwahati. The blast took place near Zoo Road outside a branch of Punjab National Bank in Guwahati at around 6:20 PM. Eyewitnesses claimed that the grenade was thrown from a Tata Safari. The injured have been taken to the hospital. Police have cordoned off the area and have started their investigations. The Union Home Ministry said that...
06:48 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mexico City: A nine-year-old girl took a hand grenade to an elementary school in Morelos, a state in central Mexico, authorities said. Administrators at the school in the city of Cuautla called the emergency response number and told operators they had an explosive device. Army troops, law enforcement agents from various federal, state and municipal departments, fire-fighters and emergency management office personnel went to the Otilio Montano School. School administrators...
11:56 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Two people have been killed and at least 10 wounded on Tuesday in a hand grenade attack in the eastern Belgian city of Liege. ...
07:58 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Brussels: Belgian news organizations are reporting that two people have been killed and at least 10 wounded on Tuesday in a hand grenade attack in the eastern Belgian city of Liege. Belgian media reported that one of the two dead was believed to be the assailant, a man believed to be about 40 years old. New reports said that at about 12:30 local time (6:30 am EDT) the man lobbed...
06:31 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: At least five civilians were injured in a grenade attack by militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Sources say unidentified militants attacked a picket of the Rashtriya Rifle personnel near the main bus stand in Kupwara district town, 90 km from Srinagar, around 1.45 pm, official sources said. The grenade fell short of the intended target and exploded outside the picket, resulting in injuries...
03:47 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Discussion on withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some parts of Jammu and Kashmir after two grenade attacks in Srinagar a day before Diwali. ...
11:19 PM, Oct 25, 2011
Karachi: A man was killed and around 19 others injured when unknown assailants travelling on motorcycles hurled hand grenades at a tea stall in a troubled area of this Pakistani city. The incident took place at around 9:45 pm on Monday night in Lyari area which has gained notoriety for a raging gang war. According to witnesses, people were having dinner amid a power breakdown when a motorcycle stopped and...
04:12 PM, Jun 28, 2011
