IED event in Manipur, Wainem, Bishnupur District area, India on Fri 23rd August 2024

A combined team of Security Forces (SFs) conducted a combing and search operation in the general areas of Wainem, Keinou Maning and Ayokpa Khun in Bishnupur District of Manipur on August 23, reports Northeast Today. The SF team included a column of 33rd Assam Rifles, a column of the 8th Battalion Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Bishnupur Police Station team and a Women Police team. The items seized include one long-range improvised mortar (Pompi) with bipod, one AK assault rifle, one .303 bolt action rifle, one 12-bore single-barrel gun, one 9mm pistol with a magazine, one .32 pistol with a magazine, eleven hand grenades, eight detonators, one INSA LMG magazine, one 7.62mm LMG magazine, one tube launcher, one WP smoke bomb, eight tear gas shells, five tear smoke bombs, ten SLR rounds of ammunition, seventeen AK rounds of ammunition, ten .303 rounds of ammunition, six INSAS rounds of ammunition.