Manipur: Gunfight between armed teams in fringe village of Imphal valley

A gunfight reportedly broke out between two armed teams in Manipur’s Imphal East district on Wednesday morning, police stated.

Armed males fired from the hilltops of Kangpokpi district, concentrating on the Sinam Kom village. Armed ‘village volunteers’ deployed on the foothills retaliated, resulting in the gunfight, they stated. Further safety forces have been deployed within the space following the incident, they added. No accidents have been reported up to now, police stated.

On Tuesday night time, a gunfight broke out between armed males and safety forces at Thamnapokpi and close by Uyok Ching in Imphal East, police stated.

Greater than 250 individuals have been killed and hundreds rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Meiteis and Kuki-Zo teams in Manipur since Might final yr.

Certainly, Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh on Wednesday took pains to level out that the state was on the correct trajectory of growth and good governance earlier than violence broke out on 3 Might 2023, and had hosted a number of worldwide and nationwide occasions, together with G-20 conferences, Miss India contests, and a tri-nation soccer match.

Talking because the chief visitor on the event of Good Governance Day held on the chief minister’s secretariat, Singh lauded authorities officers, together with the chief secretary, for working in the direction of attaining the federal government’s goal of excellent governance. Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee’s birthday was declared as ‘Good Governance Day’ in 2014 underneath the primary Modi authorities.