God left this place a long time ago

Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.

-(Blood Diamond)

Just days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit to Imphal, capital of Manipur, a powerful bomb explosion took place at the Sangai Festival. One person, a rickshaw-puller, died in the explosion caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) that he was reportedly carrying in his rickshaw. Police who interrogated the man just before he died said that he was given a package by a member of the Kangleipak Communist Party. The rickshaw-puller, identified as Kora, charged Rs 20 to transport the package. The site of the blast is about 50 metres away from the new convention centre, which the Prime Minister is due to inaugurate December 3. These photographs, taken in the minutes following the blast, show Kora the rickshaw-puller before he succumbed to his injuries.


The rickshaw puller, is seen at the site of a bomb blast as security personnel look on. Two people were injured and one died after a bomb exploded at the entrance of a ten-day-long tourism festival.




Indian security force officers stand near the man who was critically injured .

(Look at the poor guy. I wonder if anybody rushed to help him...)




Security personal interrogating the injured man on site who lost the lower part of his body in the blast as can be seen in the picture.

Kora the rickshaw-puller finally succumbed to his injuries...