Security has been beefed up in and around the Lamlai area following the incident. Lathod bombs are generally used by underground groups. IMPHAL: Tension gripped the Lamlai assembly constituency in Imphal East district on Wednesday morning after suspected rebels kept two lathod bombs at the residences of Lamlai Municipal Council vice-chairperson M Helendro and Congress worker A Deben.Explosives experts from Manipur Police safely retrieved the bombs later. The incident comes a day after miscreants fired at a convoy of fuel tankers in the Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district along the Imphal-Dimapur highway.As the two bombs are identical, police believe that the perpetrators could be from the same underground organization. Police have started a probe to nab the perpetrators.On the other hand, two transporters' organizations, which had earlier decided to call an indefinite ceasework stir in protest against the Kangpokpi attack, withdrew their stir after chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh assured them of arresting the culprits within 15 days.In a meeting held at his office chamber on Tuesday afternoon, Biren Singh assured the All Manipur Petroleum Products Transporters Association and All Manipur Petroleum Products Drivers' Association of providing security cover and patrolling along the national highways.
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