Maoist Communist Party, Manipur attack

IMPHAL, July 17: The proscribed Maoist Communist Party, Manipur has claimed the bomb attack carried out on July 16 at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). A statement issued by Nonglen Meitei, secretary publicity and propaganda, (MCP, Manipur) stated that the outfit has been urging the concerned authorities of RIMS to avail certain facilities to poor and needy people of the State, to stop doctors of the hospital going to private hospitals to earn extra money and to furnish information on inducting 45 staffs fraudulently since 2012.
Saying that the outfit had already carried out numerous bomb attacks inside the campus hospital even by using remote control device to remind their wrongdoings, the party continued that doctors of the hospital especially its director have been defying the demands made by it.