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GUWAHATI: Unidentified gunmen killed two migrant workers from Bihar while police shot dead an 18-year-old militant after a brief exchange of fire in violence-hit Manipur on Saturday.
Police said the workers – identified as Sunalal Kumar, 18, and Dasarat Kumar, 17 – were traveling on bicycles when they were shot at Keirak in Kakching district in the evening. Both were residents of Rajwahi village in Gopalganj district of Bihar.
The killings were the second fatal attack on migrant workers since the eruption of ethnic violence in Manipur on May 3 last year. In May this year, unknown assailants shot dead a 41-year-old migrant worker and injured two colleagues in Imphal. They came from Godda district in Jharkhand. The gunfight in Thoubal district took place near Salungpham High School in Salungpham Maning Leikai.
Seven armed Valley ultras shot up police commandos
Seven armed militants of banned group PREPAK in Imphal Valley fired at a team of police commandos. Police overpowered the group and arrested the seven, one of whom was found with a gunshot wound. Laishram Prem died in a hospital in Imphal.
The boy had been missing since August 13 and his family had filed a police report. He had joined PREPAK and was staying in Kakching Khunou, police said. Two Insas rifles, an Amogh rifle, a .303 rifle, an SLR rifle, 135 assorted bullets and five mobile phones were seized from the militants. Police suspect that the seized weapons were among those stolen from their armories during the initial stages of the ethnic unrest.
Since the outbreak of fighting, more than 250 lives have been lost, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced and deep divisions have emerged between the Kuki-Zo tribal communities in the hill districts and the Meitei people of the Imphal Valley.