RPF claims April 21 blasts

IMPHAL, April 22: The proscribed outfit Revolutionary People’s Front has claimed that the outfit had triggered the bomb blasts at Khudengthabi which killed a personnel of the 8th Manipur Rifles and left 10 others injured and at Sekmai which left 11 including three CRPF personnel injured. A press release of the outfit has claimed that the blasts were carried out by a select team of the PLA.

It has further said that the RPF had warned against being in the vicinity of security forces. The attacks have proved the belief of the PWD department that it can survive under security cover to be wrong, it said.

The release while expressing shock over the death of the Manipuris in the attacks has said the attack was not carried against the MR.

It has also added that the stance of the RPF not to use arms against Manipur state force is still there.