Manipur: 12 persons, including two police commandos & 4 women, injured in attack by Kuki militants.

IMPHAL: At least 12 persons, including two Manipur police commandos and four women, who were working in paddy fields were injured in the renewed violence in the state on Tuesday (November 07).

Two commandos of the Manipur police and 4 women were among eight persons, who sustained bullet injuries, when armed miscreants opened unprovoked firing from the hilltop of the Kangchup along the inter-district border of Kangpokpi and Imphal West in Manipur at around 8:30 am on Tuesday (November 07).

In another attack, armed miscreants opened fire at Kangangband and Koutruk villages under Imphal West district in Manipur injuring two villagers at around 8.30 am on Tuesday (November 07).

The miscreants also attacked the villagers of Maphou Dam and Ithan Moirangpurel in the Imphal East district of Manipur.

Two village volunteers in these villages were hit by bullets.

According to inputs, firing started at 8:30 am and continued till the filing of this report.