The Manipur government suspended mobile internet for three days across five districts after two children were killed and their mother injured in a likely rocket attack. The incident set off fresh protests and violence in the restive state.
CRPF had to open fire to prevent arson of their camp
The internet shutdown applies to Imphal East,
Imphal West, Thoubal,
Kakching and Bishnupur districts.
A curfew was also clamped in Bishnupur, where the attack took place just after midnight on Tuesday.
The Manipur-based Ukhrul Times reports that -- "At least three people were killed and several others injured after CRPF personnel opened fire during a protest at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on Monday.
The incident occurred at Tronglaobi Maning in the Gelmon area, where a large number of people had gathered outside a CRPF camp, protesting the recent attack that killed two minor siblings by suspected Kuki militants and left their mother critically injured."
A 5-year-old boy and a six-month-old girl were killed in their sleep and their mother was injured when suspected militants lobbed an explosive at their home in Tronglaobi Awang Leikai village in Moirang, a hotbed of unrest between the Meitei and Kuki communities.
The incident sparked protests, with locals torching two oil tankers and a truck near a petrol pump, burning tyres outside a police station and damaging a makeshift police outpost. Security forces were deployed to restore order.
A large mob later stormed a Central Reserve Police Force camp near the foothills of P Gelmol, close to the Bishnupur-Churachandpur border.
Reports received in Delhi from multiple sources and some informal and still unconfirmed say
one CRPF camp at Tronglaobi burned down by mob.
- Large sections of the CRPF camp have been set ablaze by the advancing mob.
Visuals indicate extensive damage to residential quarters and administrative structures within the perimeter.
Facing a direct threat to the weapon armories, which house sophisticated small arms and explosives, security personnel were forced to take defensive measures.
"To prevent the looting of lethal weaponry—which would catastrophic for regional security—personnel deployed controlled firing to push back the mob and secure the remaining tactical assets," a source said.
Separate reports also claimed -- Bomb squad safely defuses an unexploded mortar shell recovered from Tronglaobi, Moirang, following the deadly attack that killed two children and injured their mother.
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