IMPHAL, April 20: Two remote controlled Improvised Explosive device (s) were found inside the complex of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) at Lamphel today morning at around 7 am under Lamphel police station in Imphal West district.
Personnel of the 69 BN CRPF posted within the complex found the IEDs in a park located in front of the Administrative Block of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences. The IED bombs were safely defuse by a team of state bomb squad safely at around 9 am. Meanwhile, a press release from the 69 Bn CRPF Mantripukhri said that its personnel conducted an intensive search with dog squads at the area around the RIMS Director`s office and found the suspected bomb wrapped in a black polythene.
According to the release, the two IEDs were fitted with two mobile phones along with nails in two tin containers with the IED weighing about 700 gms.
An official release from the hospital authorities said however, that the bombs were noticed by sweepers during their morning duty. The release also appealed to one and all not to vitiate the hospital and academic atmosphere with such violent activities.
Apart from the employees there are students from all states in general and the NE region in particular. Hundreds of patients and relatives visit the institute everyday, it said before continuing that Medical, Dental and Nursing colleges are located on the same campus. And violence of any sort will send a wrong signal, it said.
The authority seeks cooperation from all sections of the people in the smooth and peaceful conduct of these institutes, it concluded.
Meanwhile, the Non Teaching Employees Welfare Association of RIMS hospital has in a press release expressed its unhappiness with the bomb planting in RIMS complex. The statement also urged not to create such problems in the future in an Institute of treatment and study.