Imphal, Nov. 18: The hub of commercial activity in the Manipur capital remained closed for the second day today to protest the bomb attack on an electronics store on Friday.

The rest of the business community in Imphal, too, joined the chorus of condemnation by suspending trade for a day.

One person was killed and four others were wounded when a crude bomb hurled by suspected militants exploded inside a shop selling televisions and washing machines at Paona Bazar on Friday.

Two bomb attacks in the span of a fortnight have left the business community pulverised.

On November 3, unidentified assailants hurled a crude bomb at a footwear store in the same market.

All shops, business establishments and entertainment houses remained closed since morning in response to a day-long trade strike called by the Khwairamband Nupi Keithel Sinpham Amadi Saktam Kanba Lup, an organisation of women vendors.

No group had claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack till late this evening. Police said unheeded extortion demands could be the reason behind the attack.

In an unrelated incident, suspected militants shot dead Md Hanif Shah, the president of the All Manipur Muslim Students’ Organisation, and shot at and injured Anuwari Nurjahan, the chief of the United Manipur Muslim Women’s Development Organisation, at Lilong in Thoubal district at 7pm yesterday.

The injured woman is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Imphal.

No group has claimed responsibility for the killing, but the police said rebels of the People’s United Liberation Front, a Muslim outfit, could be behind the attacks.