Thursday, January 31, 2008

A student with grenades

From Kuenselonline

30 January, 2008 - A 17-year old student of Lhamoizingkha in Dagana was
caught with three hand grenades and was questioned in police custody.Sherab
Wangchuk Sherpa confessed that the grenades were given to him by a militant
based in Jhapa, Naurata Pradhan, on December 16 last year, in Majgaon village in
Lhamoizingkha. He said that he had been taught how to handle a grenade and was
told to throw one on the function ground during the National Day celebrations
and another into the army camp in Lhamoizingkha.

He failed to carry out these instructions and had hidden the grenades near the river. On January 21 he was seen taking out the grenades by some boys of Maijigaon village who reported it to the police.

Sherab Wangchuk Sherpa will be tried at the Lhamoizingkha dungkhag court, according to the police.

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