Manipur: Body of woman believed to have been missing for 6 days from Jiribam found in Assam

The body of a woman believed to be among the six Meitei persons who had been missing from Manipur’s Jiribam district since November 11 was found floating on the Barak river in Assam’s Cachar district on Sunday morning.

The two districts share an inter-state border.

“The body of the elderly woman was found floating in Barak river near Lakhipur sub-division and was recovered by Cachar Police this morning,” a Jiribam-based Assam Rifles official confirmed to Scroll.

A senior official in the Manipur Police told Scroll that the woman likely belonged to a group of three women and three children who had gone missing from Jiribam after violence on November 11, during which suspected Kuki militants had set some shops on fire in the Jakuradhor Karong area.

The bodies of a woman and two children believed to be among the group were found floating on the Barak river on Friday evening. One woman and a child from the group remain missing.

The six persons who had gone missing on November 11 were a grandmother, her two daughters and three grandchildren. Meitei groups allege that they were abducted by armed Hmar men when they attacked the area on Monday morning.

After the three bodies were found on Friday evening, an emergency Cabinet meeting of the Manipur government was...

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