Manipur: Two children killed in bomb attack

Two children were killed in an attack by suspected Kuki militants in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on Tuesday, PTI reported.

The mother of the children, who were five months old and five years old, was injured in the incident at Tronglaobi Awang Leikai, the state’s home minister said.

The attack took place at about 1 am when a bomb thrown by the suspected militants fell on a house, PTI reported. The three were asleep at the time of the explosion.

The Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum, a Kuki organisation, rejected the allegations that members of the community were connected to the incident.

The group said that “any untoward incident” affecting the Meiteis “should not be automatically attributed to the Kuki-Zo people without proper investigation”.

The buffer zones between Kuki-Zo and Meitei areas are “heavily guarded by security forces, making it virtually impossible for Kuki-Zo individuals to cross undetected to carry out any form of attack or to plant explosive devices in Meitei localities”, the organisation said in a statement.

The nearest Kuki village to Tronglaobi is abandoned and currently held by the central security forces, “further disproving these allegations”, the forum said.

According to PTI, the village is located near the hill areas of Churachandpur and has witnessed tensions since the ethnic clashes broke out between the Meitei and...

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