Two more bodies float down the river; attacks on houses of Manipur MLAs continue | India News – Times of India

GUWAHATI/SILCHAR: The bodies of an unclothed woman and a girl child stuffed in a gunny bag washed up in the Barak river in southern Assam on Sunday, hours after neighboring Manipur succumbed to mob chaos following the discovery of Six bodies – believed to be three women and as many children – have gone missing from a camp for displaced persons in violence-ridden Jiribam.
News of the discovery of two more bodies, one in Chirighat in Assam’s Cachar and the other in Singerband III in the same district, came after overnight arson and mob attacks targeting the houses of thirteen MLAs – nine of them from BJP – in the Imphal -valley. Just as the violence seemed to have subsided, a mob demanding a meeting with BJP MLA Kongkham Robindro vandalized his ancestral house in Imphal West on Sunday evening, police said.
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Another lawmaker’s house in the district had been attacked the night before. The houses of PWD minister Govindas Konthoujam in Ningthoukhong, BJP MLAs Y Radheshyam and Paonam Brojen in Langmeidong Bazar and Thoubal respectively, and Congress legislator Th Lokeshwar in Imphal East were among those destroyed or burnt down.
Curfew in Imphal, internet outage; 23 arsonists arrested
A group of protesters attacked Kakching MLA Mayanglambam Rameshwar Singh of the NPP, sources said.
Police have arrested 23 people for looting and arson amid an indefinite curfew and internet ban in Imphal East, Imphal West and Bishnupur districts. A .32 pistol, seven rounds of ammunition and eight mobile phones were seized from them.
Eight civilians were injured in the crackdown on vandals as the army and the Assam Rifles marched through violence-hit areas with flags. CRPF DG Anish Dayal Singh arrived in Imphal to oversee the security response.
In Jiribam, where the current period of unrest began with armed invaders allegedly raping and burning a tribal woman on November 7, and the CRPF killing 10 Hmar militants on November 11, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum claimed that at at least five churches, a school, a fuel pump and fourteen Kuki-Zo houses were set on fire late on Saturday.
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Police officials also found the body of a man in the troubled neighborhood, but details of how he died were not immediately available.
Around noon on Sunday, the Lakhipur police station in Assam’s Cachar reported that the body of an unidentified girl in a bag was flowing downstream from Manipur. Less than four hours earlier, the Banskandi police station had been alerted that the decomposed, naked body of a woman had been found floating in the barracks at Chirighat.
Cachar SP Numal Mahatta said both the bodies have been sent to Silchar Medical College and Hospital for autopsy.
NDTV quoted Laisharam Herojit, a relative of the six missing inmates of the Jiribam relief camp, as saying his worst fears had come true.
He said his wife, two children, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and cousin were all dead, killed in captivity by suspected tribal militants after they were taken hostage in the clash following the gunfight that killed security forces last Monday. 10 “militants”.
Kuki-Zo and Hmar groups say the killed men were “volunteers” tasked with protecting their villages from invaders.