Woman among two killed by gunmen in Manipur in 24 hours | India News – Times of India
GUWAHATI: A 55-year-old mentally ill woman and a 34-year-old man were killed by gunmen in Manipur in the last 24 hours.
Nine persons, including five women, have been arrested for the horrific murder of Lucy Marim, who was shot in her face at her residence in Keibi Heikak Mapal village in Imphal East district on Saturday, officials said. Manipur Police tweeted, “Two arms, five (rounds of) ammunition and one car were seized in connection with the case.” Armed gunmen fled the scene of crime after disfiguring Lucy’s face.
The other victim, killed by suspected militants on Sunday, has been identified as Jangkholun Haokip from Thangbuh village in Kangpokpi district.
This is the second murder of a mentally ill woman in Manipur in the last few days. On July 6, another woman, identified as Donngaihching, was similarly shot dead. The body of the middle-aged woman, clad in a red top and yellow wrap-around lay on a road in the morning at Kwakeithel Mayaikoibi in the heart of Imphal as bystanders momentarily left immobile by the spectacle of violence scurried to safety.
Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) said in a statement that Lucy suffered from schizophrenia. “…this shows that the state government still has no control over law and order even in Manipur’s capital,” read the condemnation statement issued by ITLF.
The United Naga Council has called a 12-hour shutdown in Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur on Monday in protest of Lucy’s killing. The Committee on Tribal Unity (Cotu), too, has called a 72-hour total shutdown on National Highway-2, considered the lifeline to Imphal, condemning the killing and the setting ablaze of three LPG-carrying trucks by miscreants at Sekmai in Imphal West on Saturday.
Nineteen people were arrested in connection with the arson. They were produced before the district magistrate of Imphal West on Sunday. While 17 of them were remanded in police custody for four days, two minors were referred to the Juvenile Justice Board.
Meanwhile, in a joint combing operation by police and security forces in Kangpokpi district from 9am to 3pm on Sunday, five bunkers were destroyed and two arms were recovered, police sources said, adding that “the teams were fired upon by some armed miscreants and the security forces retaliated”.
“Firing took place at Phaileng and Thangbuh in Kangpokpi district where armed miscreants launched an attack on two villages. The incident at Thangbuh took place in the morning, but on-and-off firing continued at Phaileng throughout the day,” a senior police officer in Kangpokpi told TOI.
“Owing to the terrain and extant weather conditions, the armed miscreants could not be nabbed,” he said.
Nine persons, including five women, have been arrested for the horrific murder of Lucy Marim, who was shot in her face at her residence in Keibi Heikak Mapal village in Imphal East district on Saturday, officials said. Manipur Police tweeted, “Two arms, five (rounds of) ammunition and one car were seized in connection with the case.” Armed gunmen fled the scene of crime after disfiguring Lucy’s face.
The other victim, killed by suspected militants on Sunday, has been identified as Jangkholun Haokip from Thangbuh village in Kangpokpi district.
This is the second murder of a mentally ill woman in Manipur in the last few days. On July 6, another woman, identified as Donngaihching, was similarly shot dead. The body of the middle-aged woman, clad in a red top and yellow wrap-around lay on a road in the morning at Kwakeithel Mayaikoibi in the heart of Imphal as bystanders momentarily left immobile by the spectacle of violence scurried to safety.
Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) said in a statement that Lucy suffered from schizophrenia. “…this shows that the state government still has no control over law and order even in Manipur’s capital,” read the condemnation statement issued by ITLF.
The United Naga Council has called a 12-hour shutdown in Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur on Monday in protest of Lucy’s killing. The Committee on Tribal Unity (Cotu), too, has called a 72-hour total shutdown on National Highway-2, considered the lifeline to Imphal, condemning the killing and the setting ablaze of three LPG-carrying trucks by miscreants at Sekmai in Imphal West on Saturday.
Nineteen people were arrested in connection with the arson. They were produced before the district magistrate of Imphal West on Sunday. While 17 of them were remanded in police custody for four days, two minors were referred to the Juvenile Justice Board.
Meanwhile, in a joint combing operation by police and security forces in Kangpokpi district from 9am to 3pm on Sunday, five bunkers were destroyed and two arms were recovered, police sources said, adding that “the teams were fired upon by some armed miscreants and the security forces retaliated”.
“Firing took place at Phaileng and Thangbuh in Kangpokpi district where armed miscreants launched an attack on two villages. The incident at Thangbuh took place in the morning, but on-and-off firing continued at Phaileng throughout the day,” a senior police officer in Kangpokpi told TOI.
“Owing to the terrain and extant weather conditions, the armed miscreants could not be nabbed,” he said.
