Overview

• Ri-Bhoi Police confirmed they have registered a case against the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council after the group claimed responsibility.
• Officers located an abandoned black bag at Umsning Market on Saturday evening and bomb experts identified a powerful IED inside.
• The device comprised about 4.7 kg of gelatin, 10 detonators and roughly 50 iron splinters, and it was safely seized and later defused.
• HNLC’s statement accused unnamed political figures of aiding non-tribal settlement and land transfers as part of its justification for the act.
• A separate abandoned-bag scare in Shillong’s Rynjah area was checked by a bomb squad and declared non-suspicious, with traffic restored.