Four persons including a husband and wife duo were seriously wounded in a blast of a high intensity bomb inside a house at Yumnam Khunnou in Imphal west district on Wednesday at 11:30 am. The injured persons were evacuated to hospital. Hospital sources said that their conditions are serious but stable.

Police have registered a case and are investigating. It is not clear how the explosion occurred and the outfit behind it. Meanwhile there are demands from civil and rebel groups to come out strongly against the militant attack at Kasom in Ukhrul district on February 5 in which one person was killed and another seriously wounded. It may be recalled that the People's Liberation Army had clarified that in another incident its cadres had killed one person and wounded some others at Nambasi in Ukhrul district.

Meanwhile Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Manipur and Tripura on Saturday to review the law and order situation in these two border states. Apart from meeting with the governors and the chief ministers he will be closeted with the top police, army and paramilitary officials to discuss the law and order situation.