IMPHAL :
A MOB stormed a police station in Manipur’s Ukhrul town
and looted arms during a clash
between two groups, officials
said on Thursday.
Three persons were killed
and 20 others injured in a gunfight that broke out between
two groups onWednesday over
cleaning a disputed land in the
town as part of ‘Swachhata
Abhiyan’. The police station
was attacked when the violence
was going on.
Prohibitory orders were
imposed and mobile internet
services were suspended in the
town after the clash between
two groups of the Naga community.
“After violence broke out in
Ukhrul town, a mob comprising mostly of youths stormed
the police station located at
Wino Bazar and decamped
with government weapons,” an
official said. The number and
types of weapons looted cannot be immediately confirmed
as an investigation is continuing, he added.
Unofficial sources, however,
claimed that the looted
weapons included AK-47 and
INSAS rifles.
Looting of arms was reported from various police stations
in the ethnic-strife-torn northeastern state earlier, but in all
those cases, the areas concerned were dominated by
either Meiteis or Kukis, the two
warring communities.
This is the first time a police
station was stormed in a Nagamajority area, according to a
source.
TWO ABDUCTED YOUTHS
RELEASED AFTER A WEEK,
REACH IMPHAL: TWO youths
who were held hostage by
armed men in Manipur’s
Kangpokpi district were
released and handed over to
police on Thursday morning,
seven days after they were
abducted, an officer said.
The two youths - Oinam
Thoithoi Singh and Th
Thoithoiba Singh - were handed over to Kangpokpi
Superintendent of Police at
Gamgiphai naka at around 5
am, the officer said. The two reached Imphal
safely escorted by state police
and Assam Rifles, police said
on Thursday.