Killers were Kuki militants : Police on X
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, May 30 : Police have stated that yesterday’s ambush along the Imphal–Ukhrul road was carried out by armed Kuki militants.
In a post on X, the police said the ambush, which killed a truck driver from West Bengal and left a police personnel injured, was executed by armed Kuki militants who had taken tactical positions along the route.
On May 29, a combined security force comprising Manipur Police, CRPF, BSF, and RAF, while escorting a convoy of stranded FCI trucks and LPG/IOCL tankers from Yaingangpokpi towards Ukhrul, came under heavy attack at Roudei (TM Kasom) village from the Patleijang hill area.
The attackers, identified as armed Kuki militants, had positioned themselves strategically along the route, it added.
During the attack, an FCI truck driver, Nitish Kumar (57), from Hooghly district, West Bengal, sustained critical gunshot injuries and succumbed on the spot. A personnel of Litan Police also sustained bullet injuries.
Security forces have launched search operations and area domination exercises in the region to apprehend the perpetrators, the police said.
IMPHAL, May 30 : Police have stated that yesterday’s ambush along the Imphal–Ukhrul road was carried out by armed Kuki militants.
In a post on X, the police said the ambush, which killed a truck driver from West Bengal and left a police personnel injured, was executed by armed Kuki militants who had taken tactical positions along the route.
On May 29, a combined security force comprising Manipur Police, CRPF, BSF, and RAF, while escorting a convoy of stranded FCI trucks and LPG/IOCL tankers from Yaingangpokpi towards Ukhrul, came under heavy attack at Roudei (TM Kasom) village from the Patleijang hill area.
The attackers, identified as armed Kuki militants, had positioned themselves strategically along the route, it added.
During the attack, an FCI truck driver, Nitish Kumar (57), from Hooghly district, West Bengal, sustained critical gunshot injuries and succumbed on the spot. A personnel of Litan Police also sustained bullet injuries.
Security forces have launched search operations and area domination exercises in the region to apprehend the perpetrators, the police said.