Manipur: Elderly man killed, 5 others injured in rocket attack in Bishnupur
This was the second rocket to be fired in the district by suspected militants on Friday.
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An elderly man was killed and five others, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured on Friday after a rocket launched by suspected militants exploded in Manipur’s Bishnupur district.
The rocket landed inside the compound of a house belonging to former Chief Minister Mairembam Koireng, in the Moirang area, PTI reported.
“The elderly man was preparing for some religious rituals in the compound when the bomb exploded,” the news agency quoted the official as saying. “He died on the spot.”
The man was from the Meitei community, NDTV reported.
Manipur has been gripped by ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities since May 2023. At least 226 persons have died and more than 59,000 persons displaced since the beginning of the clashes, Chief Minister N Biren Singh told the state Assembly on August 2.
The rocket fell around 100 metres away from the Indian National Army War Museum in Moirang, which is dedicated to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, NDTV reported.
Moirang also happens to be the place where Lieutenant Colonel Shaukat Ali of the Indian National Army hoisted the tricolour for the first time on Indian soil in 1944.
The museum was likely the target of the rocket attack, NDTV reported quoting unidentified persons.
Earlier on Friday, another rocket had been fired towards the residential area of Tronglaobi, around 45 kilometres from the state capital Imphal,...
