Five people sustained injuries in two separate gunfire incidents in Manipur even as unidentified armed miscreants set houses in two villages ablaze, officials said on Sunday.
Police said no casualties have been reported in the incident. Hours after a 36-year-old man belonging to Kuki community was killed and four others sustained injuries on Saturday, unidentified armed miscreants launched the attack on Tangkhul Naga village in Kamjong district, according to police. In the second incident, a Nepalese couple sustained minor bullet injuries on Sunday around 11.45 am in an ambush carried out by unknown armed miscreants in between Mahadev and Guwaltabi village along National Highway 202 (Imphal-Nagaland via Ukhrul) road, police said. The injured have been identified as one Sandip Dahal (35) and his wife Bepanah Dahal (29) from Charhajare, Kangpokpi district, according to police.
“The two villages are located near Indo-Myanmar border, but due to lack of manpower police are yet to reach the spot,” said a senior police officer. The order said additional superintendent of police (law and order), Imphal West Jay Barange, IPS has taken charge of SP, Kamjong. Meanwhile, houses in two villages belonging to Tangkhul Naga Skipe and Pilong village in Kamjong district were set ablaze by armed militants on Sunday. On Sunday, the Manipur government issued an order transferring superintendent of police, Kamjong, Tholu Rocky to Manipur Police Training Centre as assistant director.
