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Manipur CM vows action after six Naga hostages found dead, fresh violence erupts

Manipur CM vows action after six Naga hostages found dead, fresh violence erupts

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Manipur Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh has vowed strict action after the bodies of six Naga men, allegedly held hostage by armed groups, were recovered. The incident comes amid fresh violence in Kamjong district, where suspected militants killed two people and torched several house Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Shot In Knee, Stabbed In Chest, Autopsy Report Of Meitei Baby Kidnapped By Kuki Militants From Manipur Jiribam

Shot In Knee, Stabbed In Chest, Autopsy Report Of Meitei Baby Kidnapped By Kuki Militants From Manipur Jiribam

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All the six bodies were found floating in a river in Jiribam between November 15 and 18 Imphal/New Delhi: A 10-month-old baby who was among six family members kidnapped and killed by “Kuki militants” in Manipur’s Jiribam district on November 11 was shot in the knee, stabbed in the chest, and hit with a blunt object on the jaw, according to the postmortem report shared by the family. Laishram Lamnganba Singh was last seen on his mother’s lap in a photograph that surfaced on a public WhatsApp channel called ‘Zogam News’, a day after all six members of the same family from the Meitei community were kidnapped from Jiribam by suspects who the Manipur government in a cabinet resolution called “Kuki militants”. The WhatsApp channel formed in March this year and which had 12,000 subscribers has shut down, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) looking into the case now. All the six bodies were found floating in a river in Jiribam between November 15 and 18. While the autopsies were done on all the six …

6 Bodies Found Days After Family Taken Hostage By Suspected Kuki Militants From Manipur’s Jiribam, Say Sources

6 Bodies Found Days After Family Taken Hostage By Suspected Kuki Militants From Manipur’s Jiribam, Say Sources

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Manipur’s Meitei community holds a candlelight vigil in Imphal seeking safe release of hostages Imphal/New Delhi: The police have found six bodies five days after three women and three children, including an eight-month-old, from the Meitei community were taken hostage by suspected Kuki insurgents from Manipur’s Jiribam district, neighbouring Assam, top sources in the state government told NDTV on Saturday morning. The bodies of a woman and two children were brought to a morgue in Assam’s Silchar on Friday night, amid tension in neighbouring Jiribam district. Last night, sources at the morgue in Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) who saw the bodies told NDTV that the bodies of three women were brought there. They said initial examination of the bodies indicated they were adults. This morning, the sources confirmed two of the bodies were of children and one was of a woman. The corpses had bloated due to some decomposition, they said. Post-noon, top government sources told NDTV three more bodies were found, taking the total to six; these three bodies are yet to …

Bodies Of 3 Women Found In Manipur’s Jiribam Amid Hostage Crisis: Sources

Bodies Of 3 Women Found In Manipur’s Jiribam Amid Hostage Crisis: Sources

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Manipur’s Meitei community holds a candlelight vigil in Imphal seeking safe release of hostages Imphal/New Delhi: The bodies of three women were brought to a morgue in Assam’s Silchar on Friday, amid tension in neighbouring Manipur’s Jiribam district after three women and three children were taken hostage by suspected Kuki militants on Monday. The bodies are yet to be identified, sources at the morgue who have seen the bodies told NDTV. The morgue is at Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMHC), some 50 km from Jiribam. The bodies were brought to the morgue at 7 pm on Friday, sources said, adding autopsies of bodies found in Jiribam are done in SMHC due to lack of proper infrastructure in the town. An infant and a two-and-half-year old child are among the three children who were taken hostage on Monday. The three women hostages include the mother of the two younger children. All are from the Meitei community. They were kidnapped by a group of suspected Kuki militants from Jiribam’s Bokobera neighbourhood while another group of militants …

1 Killed In Rocket Attack By Suspected Insurgents In Manipur’s Valley Town Moirang

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A man from the Meitei community who was offering prayers was killed in a rocket attack Imphal/New Delhi: An elderly man who was offering prayers was killed in a rocket-propelled bomb attack in Manipur’s Moirang town today, the police said. Five others including a 13-year-old girl were injured in the attack on the lakeside town in Bishnupur district, 35 km from the state capital Imphal. She is the second minor injured in drone and rocket attacks in the last five days by suspected Kuki insurgents. The rocket struck the house of Manipur’s first Chief Minister Mairembam Koireng Singh, just 100 metres away from the Indian National Army (INA) Museum in the heart of Moirang town, on the banks of the northeast’s largest freshwater lake Loktak. The INA Museum is dedicated to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose; Moirang town is where the INA flag was first unfurled on April 14, 1944 on Indian territory. Sources said the INA Museum was the likely target of the rocket attack. Residents said the rocket came from the direction of the …