Manipur: Meitei man shot dead during Jiribam protest, 22 killed in fresh violence since November 7
The bodies of all the six Meitei women and children, who had been missing from the district since November 11, were recovered and identified.
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A 25-year-old Meitei man, Athouba Ningthouja, was shot dead by the state police during protests in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Sunday night, a security force member stationed in the area confirmed to Scroll.
The firing took place when a mob was vandalising property in the Babupara area to protest the killings of a group of six Meitei women and children who had been abducted allegedly by Kuki militants on November 11, PTI reported.
The mob ransacked the offices of the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as a house belonging to Jiribam’s Independent MLA, PTI reported quoting unidentified officials.
“They brought furniture, paper and other things out of the properties and made a bonfire out of them in front of the buildings,” an official said.
A curfew was imposed in Imphal West district on Saturday in response to protests that erupted after the bodies of a woman and two children, including a two-year-old boy, were found floating on the Barak River at Lakhipur in Assam a day prior.
They belonged to three of the six Meitei persons who had been missing from Jiribam since November 11.
The body of another woman and child were recovered on Sunday, while that of the sixth missing person was found in floating the Barak river on...
