IMPHAL, Oct 3: A mob stormed a police station in Manipur’s Ukhrul city and looted arms throughout a conflict between two teams, officers stated on Thursday.
Three individuals have been killed and 20 others injured in a gunfight that broke out between two teams on Wednesday over cleansing a disputed land within the city as a part of ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’.
The police station was attacked when the violence was happening.
Prohibitory orders have been imposed and cell web companies have been suspended within the city after the conflict between two teams of the Naga group.
“After violence broke out in Ukhrul city, a mob comprising principally of youths stormed the police station situated at Wino Bazar and decamped with authorities weapons,” an official stated.
The quantity and kinds of weapons looted can’t be instantly confirmed as an investigation is constant, he added.
Unofficial sources, nonetheless, claimed that the looted weapons included AK-47 and INSAS rifles.
Looting of arms was reported from varied police stations within the ethnic-strife-torn northeastern state earlier, however in all these instances, the areas involved have been dominated by both Meiteis or Kukis, the 2 warring communities.
That is the primary time a police station was stormed in a Naga-majority space, in line with a supply. (PTI)