Manipur Unrest: Protest Breaks Out in Imphal Valley After 6 Bodies of Missing People Found

Imphal: Hundreds of people protested in different parts of Imphal valley on Saturday after bodies suspected to be of six persons missing were found from Jiribam district. 

protesters mostly women blocked main ros in Kwakeil area in Imphal West district, Sagolband Tera in Imphal West district by burning tyres to prevent vehicular movement, police said.

At Khwairamband market, main market of Manipur , women vendors staged a protest rally against killing even as huge security forces were deployed in Imphal, police said.

As news of recovery of three bodies spre, business establishments and markets closed down.

Locals also came out on streets at Ningthoukhong in Bishnupur district and Lamlong in Imphal East district to stage protests against killing.

state government has alrey declared a holiday for schools and colleges on Saturday.

Three bodies of a woman and two children suspected to be of six persons missing from Jiribam district were found near confluence of Jiri river and Barak river along Manipur- Assam border on Friday night, officials said on Saturday.

bodies were brought to Assam's Silchar Medical College Hospital (SMCH) on Friday night and kept at hospital's morgue for postmortem.

Three women and three children who lived in a relief camp have been missing since a gunfight between security forces and militants in Jiribam district on Monday, with Metei organisations alleging that y were kidnapped by retreating militants. Police said a search was underway for m.

More than 200 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic clashes between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and joining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year.

Ethnically diverse Jiribam, which was largely untouched by clashes in Imphal Valley and joining hills, witnessed violence after mutilated body of a farmer was found in a field in June this year.

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