4 labourers shot as fresh violence rocks Manipur

Imphal, January 18

Four people were shot dead in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on Thursday as ethnic violence continued in the northeastern state, the police said.

The incident occurred at Ningthoukhong Kha Khunou and the victims, included a man and his 60-year-old father. The police said they are investigating the case.

Quoting one person who escaped the shooting, an official said, “Five-six armed miscreants came when the labourers were tilling the farmland and shot them from point-blank range.”

After shooting them down, the miscreants fled to the hill ranges from where they had come, the official added. With these four, at least seven people, including two police commandos, have been killed in separate districts of the strife-torn state since Wednesday.