State on alert, SMU condemns blast

Shillong, Sept 9: In the backdrop of serial bomb blasts in Malegoan town of Maharashtra, Meghalaya police today directed its personnel across the state to keep an extra alert.

''I have directed all district Superintendents of Police to take extra precaution in the wake of the blast, '' state Director General of Police William Richmond Marbaniang said.

Meanwhile, the Shillong Muslim Union had condemned Malegoan blast, which claimed 38 lives and injured about 190, that too on a day of Shahe-e-Barat.

''Such terror need worldwide condemnation, '' SMU member and Meghalaya Congress Legislator Sayeedulah Nongrum said adding the government should arrest the perpetrators at the earliest.

UNI