Manipur: Four people shot dead, six others injured in Manipur’s Thoubal district
Manipur’s Thoubal district on Monday. Curfew was reimposed in the three districts of the state.
A senior police officer who does not want to be named said that gunmen arrived in camouflage dress in the Lilong Chingjao area.
There was indiscriminate firing. “ There was an altercation over ransom demand.”
The officer said that irate locals set some vehicles on fire.
Curfew was reimposed in Thoubal, Imphal East and Imphal West.
Chief Minister N Biren Singh condemned the violence, and appealed to the people, particularly the residents of Lilong, for maintaining peace.
“Police are working to arrest those behind the attack. They will be arrested soon and punished as per the law,” he said.
More than 180 people have been killed and several hundred injured since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3 when a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised in the hill districts to protest against the majority Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
The security forces have initiated a major search operation to nab the suspected militants, who attacked the Manipur Police commandos on Saturday and Sunday injuring five personnel seriously.
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh also expressed his concern over the attacks on the forces and said that a delegation would soon go to Delhi to apprise the central leaders on the prevailing situation of the state.
Five Manipur Police commandos were injured in clashes with suspected Kuki militants in the state’s Tengnoupal district on Saturday and Sunday.
The injured personnel — Diliangam Kamson, M.Priyokumar, N.Borjao, M.Sunil and Ponkhalung — were given first aid at the Assam Rifles camp in Moreh and then brought to Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal, the
