Manipur Violence: Violence continues in Manipur. Meanwhile, on Thursday (July 5) in Imphal West district, unidentified gunmen shot dead a woman outside a school. The incident took place at Kwakithel Mayai Koibi under Lamphel police station.
A day before, classes from first to eighth have started in the state, which were closed for two months due to violence. News agency PTI quoted officials as saying that the woman had gone to the school for some work, but she had nothing to do with the school.
Violence continues in Manipur
Intermittent gunfire was heard in a village in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Thursday morning. Some people attacked the villagers with automatic guns, but the security forces averted the clash. Sources gave this information.
PTI quoted sources as saying that the incident took place near Pheleng village around 3.40 pm on Wednesday. Armed groups from the surrounding areas had gathered in the area which escalated the tension.
He said that around 1,000 to 1,500 women had blocked roads to prevent additional security forces from reaching the area, but the situation was brought under control with the deployment of Assam Rifles personnel in the area.
A large number of Kuki community people demonstrated in Churachandpur on Wednesday. They took out a rally from Public Ground to Tuibong Peace Ground. Sources said that around 4,000 people participated in the rally. Most of them were dressed in warrior clothes. The rally concluded at 7 pm on Wednesday, in which no untoward incident has been reported.
When did the violence start in Manipur?
According to PTI, caste violence had broken out in the state on May 3, in which over 100 people have lost their lives so far, after a ‘tribal solidarity rally’ was taken out in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. Are. Over 3,000 people were injured in the violence.
Around 40,000 central security personnel have been deployed along with the Manipur Police to bring the violence under control and restore normalcy in the state. The population of the Meitei community is about 53 percent in the population of the state. They mostly live in the Imphal Valley. Tribal Nagas and Kukis account for 40 per cent of the population. They live in hilly districts.
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