Our Correspondent
Imphal, Sep. 17 (EMN): Three persons including a woman suspected to be militants were killed in a firing incident at Muktakhal area under Manipur Jiribam district bordering Cachar district of Assam in the intervening night of September 16 and 17, reports reaching here said.
The firing incident took place when some unidentified armed persons attacked the suspected militants at a designated camp of UTLA, an armed group currently under Suspension of Operations with state and central government forces at Muktakhal area around 12.30 pm, sources said.
The deceased have been identified as lady Hatsei (25), Ngamboi (22) and Mangmimlen (20), the source claimed. But the reason behind the incident is yet to be established. The Jiribam police have also visited the incident site to oversee the situation for further steps.
It may be mentioned that four persons sustained injury when unidentified persons exploded a hand grenade at a residential complex at Mantripukhri in Imphal East district on Saturday evening.
The incident occurred in the lawn of a five storey building of one Mukesh K Sharma at Mantripukhri at around 5 pm. The building is occupied by private company staff for residential purpose.
The injured persons have been evacuated to a nearby hospital in Imphal. Later state chief minister N Biren accompanied by the state officials visited the injured persons who are identified Zaffar Seikh (44) of Assam, Bijoykumar(49) of West Bengal, Chunchun Prasad (41) of Jharkhand and Tapa Kumar Bardhan (50) of West Bengal .According to doctors, all of them sustained minor injuries.
