Violence continued in Manipur for the second day on Saturday after an aged Meitei man was killed
Imphal/New Delhi:
Six individuals have been killed in contemporary violence this morning in Manipur’s Jiribam district, the police mentioned. Suspected Kuki insurgents attacked Nungchappi village within the district 229 km from the state capital Imphal, killing a 63-year-old man recognized as Yurembam Kulendra Singha. The assault got here a day after an aged man from the valley-dominant Meitei group, who was providing prayers, was killed in a rocket-propelled bomb assault by Kuki insurgents in Manipur’s Moirang city, in response to the police.
The 5 others have been killed in a gunfight between armed teams of the Meitei group and the hill-dominant Kuki tribes, sources mentioned. These teams name themselves “village defence volunteers”.
The Jiribam Superintendent of Police (SP) and a police workforce rushed to the realm, however have been fired at, the police mentioned within the assertion, including the workforce “retaliated strongly and managed the firing.”
An anti-drone system has been deployed within the space, the police mentioned, almost per week after suspected Kuki insurgents attacked villages in Imphal West district with weaponised drones – the primary time suspected insurgents launched drone assaults on Indian soil.