Imphal, Nov 1: Following the killing of a senior police officer, a convoy of Manipur police commandos drove into the India-Myanmar border town of Moreh on Tuesday night.
The Manipur Police sent the reinforcements to the border town, 115 km from the state capital Imphal, after police officer Chingtham Anand was shot dead by an insurgent sniper while he was overseeing the construction of a helipad.
A combined force of police commandos and the army’s Assam Rifles were ambushed at two places on the hilly Imphal-Moreh highway while they were going to the border town.
According to reports, three police commandos were injured in the attack by insurgents.
After the two ambushes in a single day, the police commandos pressed on towards Moreh and reached the border town by midnight to flush out the insurgents.
The Manipur government extended the mobile internet ban till November 5 to prevent law and order issues following the killing of the police officer.
Meanwhile, the Kuki civil society groups in a statement alleged the ambushes were shoot-outs with village volunteers over alleged indiscriminate use of force by police commandos.
On the other hand, the Manipur government filed an FIR against an organisation called ‘World Kuki-Zo Intellectual Council’ (WKZIC) for issuing a statement on October 24 asking “volunteers” in the Kuki-Zo community to take up arms.
