Nine persons, including a woman, were injured when militants triggered
an IED blast at a busy market place in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills
district on Saturday, police said.
The police have evacuated
the area as precautionary measure and an intensive operation was
launched to search the market place to detect presence of any other
explosive, IGP (Operations) G H P Raju said.
The injured have been shifted to a civil hospital, Raju said.
The powerful improvised explosive device (IED) went off at around 12:45
pm at the weekly market destroying portions of a liquor shop and its
adjacent rooms and injuring the nine persons, he said.
According to police, proscribed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA)
militants planted the IED in the crowded market targetting civilians.
Raju said police will intensify counter insurgency operations in the coming days to flush out GNLA militants from this area.
The GNLA is an outlawed armed militant organisation active in the Garo
Hills region since 2010 and is involved in kidnapping, extortion and
killing of both civilians and security forces.
Saturday, January 9
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