The 151 grenades recovered by the police last week in Gaurnagar in northern Tripura have been defused by experts from the Army, the police said on Saturday.
“Experts from Army’s divisional headquarters at Masimpur [near Silchar in southern Assam] came on Friday and defused the grenades,” northern Tripura’s Unokoti district police chief Ajit Pratap Singh said.
He said students had found the grenades buried near their school. They informed their elders, who immediately alerted the police.
Local villagers said the grenades might have been buried during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Historian Bikach Chowdhury said Tripura had six to seven camps in four sectors from where the Bangladeshi freedom fighters fought Pakistani forces. “Over 16,00,000 Bangladeshis had taken shelter in Tripura alone,” he said.
