Three bodies found in Manipur’s Barak River | India News – Times of India

GUWAHATI: The bodies of a woman and two children were found floating in the Barak river near Jirimukh in Manipur’s conflict-affected Jiribam on Friday, raising fears that these could be three of the six missing prisoners of a camp for the displaced people near where security forces killed 10 Hmar “militants” on November 11.
A security official said the bodies, spotted by residents of the area, were retrieved and sent to Silchar Medical College and Hospital in neighboring south Assam for autopsy and identification.
“We cannot confirm whether the three bodies belong to the three women and as many children who have been reported missing for five days. We have to wait for the autopsy findings,” the official said.
The missing are a 25-year-old woman and her eight-month-old daughter and two-year-old son, a 31-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter, and a 60-year-old woman.
Manipur police said two senior officers were stationed in Jiribam and Borobekra to monitor and coordinate the operations of multiple teams to trace the six missing people.
Amid all this, Inspector Sagapam Ibotombi Singh, officer-in-charge of Jiribam police station, submitted his resignation to the DGP, citing “unavoidable circumstances of my family and other reasons”. He was immediately transferred, sources said.
Singh, who was awarded the President’s Medal for Gallantry twice, led the police team that joined CRPF in the counter-offensive following an attack on two posts of the paramilitary force. The Kuki-Zo community insists that the ten “militants” killed in retaliatory gunfire were Hmar “volunteers” who protected their villages from invader attacks.